Author
Ascanio Condivi is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks. One work is named, all in Notebook: Artists, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
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 Ascanio Condivi’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 Condivi.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Condivi gives the / impression that the / pen alone was used / in the time of Michel, / for sketches or studies / on paper”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Artists." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (94); Box 6.
Inferred Fuller does not name the work, but Condivi is known by a single major publication.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“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.