Author
Traiano Boccalini is documented in Fuller’s books and manuscripts (1846). One work is named, most often in Notes on Books, Children, and Faith, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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 →
“I should fear to be treated like the critic mentioned in the story Addison quotes from Boccalini, whom Apollo rewarded for his labours by presenting him with a bushel of chaff from which all the wheat had been winnowed.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I should fear to be treated like the critic mentioned in the story Addison quotes from Boccalini, whom Apollo rewarded for his labours by presenting him with a bushel of chaff from which all the wheat had been winnowed.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869); page given is to the 1869 reprint.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Why Jeffrey is but the modern edition of the critic whom Apollo (in the story quoted from Boccalini) rewarded with chaff for his pains.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Books, Children, and Faith." Houghton Library, Harvard University.