Author
Luigi Antonio Lanzi is documented in Fuller’s letters (1844). One work is named, all in Letter to Maria Rotch, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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 →
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Before you go into Italy I would read Lanzi or some good history of painting.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Inferred Fuller explicitly recommends "Lanzi" as the essential Italian painting history, stating "Before you go into Italy I would read Lanzi."