Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Giordano Bruno(1548–1600)

Giordano Bruno is documented in Fuller’s journals (1836). One work is named, all in Journal December 1836, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in
Journals
Documented
1836
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

“The following ode was written by Giordano Bruno, under prospect of that martyrdom which he soon after suffered at Rome, for atheism: that is, as is proved by all his works, for a lofty and enlightened piety… / 'Dædalias vacuis plumas nectere humeris / Concupiant alii…”
Daedalia vacuis plumas nectere humeris · Journal December 1836 · 1836

When Fuller engaged with Giordano Bruno

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Bruno in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1836—

Journal December 1836

p43–47
excerpted · quoted · readManuscript page
“The following ode was written by Giordano Bruno, under prospect of that martyrdom which he soon after suffered at Rome, for atheism: that is, as is proved by all his works, for a lofty and enlightened piety… / 'Dædalias vacuis plumas nectere humeris / Concupiant alii…”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal December 1836." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 3.

The ode is attributed to Bruno (1548–1600), the Italian philosopher burned for heresy in Rome.