Author
Publius Aelius Hadrian is documented in Fuller’s journals. One work is named, all in Journal 1833–1842, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
“Animula vagula blandula, / hospes comesque corporis, / quae nunc abibis in loca / pallidula rigida nudula, / nec, ut soles, dabis iocos?" Are these the words, or are they like the words of Hadrian? No matter not _ they are not less beautiful _ [...] the lines never lose their hold upon me. Oh, mild & wandering sprite, the body's guest & sweet companion, into what places dost thou now depart, pale, [illegible], bare _ No more to [illegible] or smile?”
No datable encounters with Hadrian, Publius Aelius have been catalogued yet.
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.
“Animula vagula blandula, / hospes comesque corporis, / quae nunc abibis in loca / pallidula rigida nudula, / nec, ut soles, dabis iocos?" Are these the words, or are they like the words of Hadrian?”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1842." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (83); Box 5 (83).