leggio

And at the leggio stood a man whose face I could not see.

Romola George Eliot 1849

Tito took his stand at the leggio, where he both wrote and read, and she placed herself at a table just in front of him, where she was ready to give into her father's hands anything that he might happen to want, or relieve him of a volume that he had done with.

Romola George Eliot 1849

_leggio_, or reading-desk, such as is often seen in the choirs of

Romola George Eliot 1849

"Romola, in the deep night, as I lay awake, I saw my father's room -- the library -- with all the books and the marbles and the leggio, where I used to stand and read; and I saw you -- you were revealed to me as I see you now, with fair long hair, sitting before my father's chair.

Romola George Eliot 1849