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Benvenuto Cellini is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, published essays, and journals (1837–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in New-York Daily Tribune, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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 Benvenuto Cellini’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“had read everything that related to Condivi, Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · before 1839
Same dated (before 1839) explicit reading claim naming Cellini.
“* Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, translated by Roscoe. [...] He was really the Orlando Furioso turned Goldsmith, and Angelicas and all the Peers of France joined in the show.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“The Memoirs of Alfieri or Benvenuto Cellini, or among fictions Lockhart's "Reginald Dalton" Hope's "Anastasius" or Beckford's "Caliph Vathek" are very good.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“On Cellini_ Life of the Artist. Italian Nature”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).
Inferred Title inferred from the explicit description 'Life of the Artist.'
“* Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, translated by Roscoe. [...] He was really the Orlando Furioso turned Goldsmith, and Angelicas and all the Peers of France joined in the show.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p93
“MEMOIRS OF BENEVUTO CELLINI. Translated by Rosc[illegible]e. No. 1, of Wiley & Putnam’s Foreign Library.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Italy." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 November 1845. · 13 November 1845
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“How beautiful the life of Benvenuto Cellini! How his occupations perpetually impelled to thought, — to gushings of thought naturally excited!”
“She read Condivi, Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini, Duppa, Fuseli, and Von Waagen — great and small.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.