Author

Ugo Foscolo(1778–1827)

Ugo Foscolo is documented in Fuller’s letters and reading notebooks (1836–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to James Nathan, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedAnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Notebooks
Documented: 1836–1845

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Ugo Foscolo’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

Dated
1845Essays on PetrarchAttested
“Last night came your book Foscolo on Petrarch. I have read this book but am very glad to own it”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 13th Septr 45
'I have read this book but am very glad to own it' is an explicit first-person reading statement.

In Fuller’s words

“Last night came your book — Foscolo on Petrarch. I have read this book, but am very glad to own it, and to feel with what thoughts you sent it. [...] P. S. I looked all through the life of Petrarch for your pencil-marks, but had to fancy them.”

Essays on Petrarch · Letter to James Nathan · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Ugo Foscolo

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)1record

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1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Foscolo in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p94–p96

excerpted · readManuscript page

“From Foscolo._ / Chi crede anzi alle sue parole (di Dante) a' suoi sacerdoti [...] Il passaggio istantaneo, in quel canto (10th) [...] I danni che la troppa fede in un testo [...] Le anime di Dante e del Petrarca più ch'altre [...]”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).

Inferred Fuller labels section 'From Foscolo.' (p94) and copies extensive Italian-language passages on Dante's Canto 10 of the Inferno, the souls of Dante and Petrarch, and literary criticism. The text includes Italian critical prose discussing Dante, Petrarch, Homer, 'i poeti Ebrei' (Hebrew poets), and the contrast of their souls.

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

p158

read

“Last night came your book Foscolo on Petrarch. I have read this book but am very glad to own it, and to feel with what thoughts you sent it.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

p158

analyzed · read

“Last night came your book — Foscolo on Petrarch. I have read this book, but am very glad to own it, and to feel with what thoughts you sent it. [...] P. S.”

Fuller, Margaret. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p200

analyzed · read

“Read Ugo Foscolo's Sepolcri, and Pindemonti's answer, but could not relish either”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.