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L'Alba is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1847–1848). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Letter to William Wetmore Story, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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 →
“The ‘Alba,’ the ‘Patria,’ were begin, and have been continued with equal judgment and spirit. Their aim is to educate the youth, to educate the lower people”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“The ‘Alba,’ the ‘Patria,’ were begin, and have been continued with equal judgment and spirit. Their aim is to educate the youth, to educate the lower people”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XVII." New-York Daily Tribune, 27 November 1847. · 27 November 1847
“I see good articles copied from the "Alba.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“There are many good papers now in Italy. Whatever represents the Montanelli ministry is best for you. That gives the lead now. I see good articles copied from the 'Alba.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred Margaret Fuller recommends the Italian newspaper L'Alba as a valuable resource for understanding the Montanelli ministry, noting that "Whatever represents the Montanelli ministry is best for you." She observes that articles from L'Alba are frequently copied elsewhere, indicating its significance and the perceived authority of its reporting on current affairs.