Author

Titus Livius (Livy)

Titus Livius (Livy) is documented in Fuller’s published essays and journals (1838–1845). One work is named, most often in Journal Entry: Winter 1838–1839, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Essays · Journals
Documented
1838–1845
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 →

When Fuller engaged with Titus Livius (Livy)

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Livius in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1838—

Journal Entry: Winter 1838–1839

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analyzed · readManuscript page
“Reading Livy / An appeal to the noble or generous feelings of the Romans even from one they hated seems never to have been neglected.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Entry: Winter 1838–1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.

1845—

Select Tales from the Gesta Romanorum . . .

“Select Tales from the Gesta Romanorum . . .”
mentioned
“it is bad enough to have read and believed all that Livy wrote from his Sucking Wolf to his Capitol Goose”

Fuller, Margaret. "Select Tales from the Gesta Romanorum . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 31 May 1845. · 31 May 1845