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Pietro della Valle is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1840–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
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 →
“Will you send to me at Miss Peabody's the remaining volumes of Pietro della Valle which she is to have in her Foreign Library, and foreign they will surely be.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Will you send to me at Miss Peabody's the remaining volumes of Pietro della Valle which she is to have in her Foreign Library, and foreign they will surely be.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Hudspeth identified: 'Pietro della Valle (1586-1652) was an Italian traveler in the Orient.
“We ourselves have lent the travels of della Valle to those of whose sympathy we felt secure, and found them utterly dull”
Fuller, Margaret. "English Writers Little Known Here." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 March 1845. · 4 March 1845