Author

Ricordano Malispini(c. 1220–c. 1290)

Ricordano Malispini is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks. No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Notebook: Sir Thomas Browne, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
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In Fuller’s words

“Whatsoever else the world terms happiness is to me a story out of Pliny, a tale of Boccace or Malizpini, an apparition or neat delusion, wherein there is no more of happiness than the name.”
Notebook: Sir Thomas Browne

When Fuller engaged with Ricordano Malispini

No datable encounters with Malispini, Ricordano have been catalogued yet.

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

Documentary evidence

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.

n.d.—

Notebook: Sir Thomas Browne

p. 54
“Whatsoever else the world terms happiness is to me a story out of Pliny, a tale of Boccace or Malizpini, an apparition or neat delusion, wherein there is no more of happiness than the name.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Sir Thomas Browne." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (87); Box 6 (87).