Author
Francesco Berni is documented in Fuller’s letters, reading notebooks, and manuscripts (1827). One work is named, most often in Letter to Susan Prescott, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Francesco Berni’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I am engrossed in reading the elder Italian poets, beginning with Berni, from whom I shall proceed to Pulci and Politian.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 10 January 1827
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re166 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-01 l.2198-2201, letter dated Jan 10 1827; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit first-person statement 'I am engrossed in reading the elder Italian poets, beginning with Berni'.
“Lines suggested by the lines of Berni "Molte commodia ci ha date Iddio &c Full many a solace has our Father given To sooth us in our heritage of wo — Some lovely glimpses of the joys of heaven Which fill the heart with Hope's divinest glow”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“p.87–90 (friendship stanzas): 'Molte commodità ci ha date Iddio … Questa è la vera amicizia e perfetta … Da due cause procede, e da due fonti. / Elezione è l'un, l'altro natura.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“I am engrossed in reading the elder Italian poets, beginning with Berni, from whom I shall proceed to Pulci and Politian.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller explicitly names Berni as the first Italian poet she is reading, describing herself as "engrossed in reading," though she does not name a specific work.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Lines suggested by the lines of Berni "Molte commodia ci ha date Iddio &c Full many a solace has our Father given To sooth us in our heritage of wo — Some lovely glimpses of the joys of heaven Which fill the heart with Hope's divinest glow”
Fuller, Margaret. "True Friendship in Its Highest State." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 144.