Author

Giovanni Berchet(1783–1851)

Giovanni Berchet is documented in Fuller’s letters (1847). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Letter to J. Westland Marston, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement: ReadMentioned
Present in: Letters
Documented: 1847

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“of the other play for Sigr Berchet. The former has of the visconti serpent the wisdom only without the wrong, the latter is the well known patriot poet of Italy.”

Letter to J. Westland Marston · 1847

When Fuller engaged with Giovanni Berchet

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1847—

Letter to J. Westland Marston

p285

read

“of the other play for Sigr Berchet. The former has of the visconti serpent the wisdom only without the wrong, the latter is the well known patriot poet of Italy.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Hudspeth identified Berchet's Lettera semiseria di Grisostomo al suo figliuolo (1816) as a manifesto of Italian Romanticism, and Fuller's characterization of him as a "poet" with political commitment implies reading knowledge. Fuller clearly knows Berchet as a literary and political figure, though without a specific work cited the engagement remains inferred from her familiarity with his reputation.

Hudspeth identified Berchet's Lettera semiseria di Grisostomo al suo figliuolo (1816) as a manifesto of Italian Romanticism, and Fuller's characterization of him as a "poet" with political commitment implies reading knowledge.