Author
Massimo Taparelli d' Azeglio is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1849). One work is named, most often in Letter to Lewis Cass, Jr., 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 →
“Among the speeches that of the Marquis d’Azeglio, a man of literary note in Italy, and son-in-law of Manzoni, contained this passage, (he was sketching the past history of Italy): “The crown passed to the head of a German monarch; but he wore it not to the benefit but the injury of Christianity—of the world.”
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 read "Nicolo Di' Lapi," a book unenlivened by a spark of genius; but it interested me as illustrating Florence.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Hudspeth identified she is reading it actively at Perugia.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Among the speeches that of the Marquis d’Azeglio, a man of literary note in Italy, and son-in-law of Manzoni, contained this passage, (he was sketching the past history of Italy): “The crown passed to the head of a German monarch; but he wore it not to the benefit but the injury of Christianity—of the world.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XIV." New-York Daily Tribune, .
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“Thus I read Nicolo di' Lapi, a book unenlivened by a spark of genius, but interesting, to me, as illustrative of Florence.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.