Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Vittoria Colonna(1490–1547)

Vittoria Colonna is documented in Fuller’s journals (1833). One work is named, all in Journal 1833–1834, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in
Journals
Documented
1833
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

“Scrivo sol per sfogar l'interna — [ed. note: “Scrivo sol per sfogar l'interna doglia” (“I write only to vent my inward pain”, from the opening sonnet of the collection Rime by the Renaissance Italian poet Vittoria Colonna (1490–1547)]”
Rime · Journal 1833–1834 · 1833

When Fuller engaged with Vittoria Colonna

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Colonna in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1833—

Journal 1833–1834

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excerpted · quoted · read
“Scrivo sol per sfogar l'interna — [ed.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1834." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (4); Box 5 (83).