Author
Giuseppe Mazzini is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, published essays, and journals (1845–1849). 9 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Costanza Arconati Visconti, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “translated”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Giuseppe Mazzini’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“A letter from Mazzini to Pope Pius, printed in Paris, had reached Italy by this time, and was translated by Margaret for publication in the New York Tribune”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · context of New Year's day events, early 1848
Engagement type Translated (Mazzini's letter translated by Fuller for the Tribune) automatically qualifies for the Demonstrated tier.
“When I read from your hand these words "il lungo esilio teste ricominciato...”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Rome 3 March, 1849
'When I read from your hand these words' is an explicit first-person reading statement tied to a specific document and moment.
“Letter of Mazzini in answer to the annunciation that he is made a Roman citizen and delegate to the Roman Constitutional Assembly. al Presidente dell' Assemblea Censtituente Romana. Cittadino Presidente: Vent'anni d'esiglio...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Firenze 25 Febbrajo 1849. Giuseppe Mazzini.
A long verbatim excerpt of Mazzini's letter is copied out, a sustained multi-sentence passage under 'Excerpted'.
“Should it in any other way have reached the United States yet, it will not be amiss to have it translated for The Tribune, as many of your readers may not otherwise have a chance of seeing this document, one of the milestones in the march of Thought. Letter to the Most High Pontiff, Pius IX. from JOSEPH MAZZINI— (Printed at Paris, 1847.)”
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 Italian patriots, at whose head stands the name of the honest Mazzini, are a guaranty for the truth of its contents.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Anniversary of the Polish Revolution." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 December 1845. · 1 December 1845
“especially one on his friends the two Bandieras and Rufini, headed 'Italian Martyrs.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Fuller explicitly identifies Mazzini's essay by its heading "Italian Martyrs" and notes it concerns "his friends the two Bandieras and Rufini." Hudspeth identified this as The Martyrs for Italian Liberty, a two-part essay Mazzini published in People's Journal (vol. 1, pp. 121–23 and 293–94), treating the executed Bandiera brothers and Jacopo Ruffini.
“the school for poor Italian boys, sustained and taught by a few of their exiled compatriots, and especially by the mind and efforts of Mazzini.”
“Those who wish to form an idea of his mind could not do better than to read his sketches of the Italian Martyrs in the “People’s Journal.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . IX." New-York Daily Tribune, 19 February 1847.
“I do not wonder that you were annoyed at his manner of addressing the Pope; but to me it seems that he speaks as he should,-near God and beyond the tomb; not from power to power, but from soul to soul, without regard to temporal dignities.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller responds to criticism of Mazzini's manner of addressing the Pope in a public letter, paraphrasing his language: "not from power to power, but from soul to soul." Hudspeth identified this as Mazzini's open letter to Pius IX, and Fuller's language closely mirrors the actual letter, indicating she has read it.
“A letter from Mazzini to Pope Pius, printed in Paris, had reached Italy by this time, and was translated by Margaret for publication in the New York Tribune”
Howe, Julia Ward. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli). Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883.
“Should it in any other way have reached the United States yet, it will not be amiss to have it translated for The Tribune, as many of your readers may not otherwise have a chance of seeing this document, one of the milestones in the march of Thought.”
“Believe, most holy Father, in the feelings of veneration and of high hope which professors for you your most devoted JOSEPH MAZZINI.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXI." New-York Daily Tribune, 19 February 1848.
“[Not mentioned in letter text; identified via Hudspeth footnote 2, citing Fuller's journal: she 'also read Mazzini's journal, Ricordi di giovani d'Italia']”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Hudspeth identified from Fuller's diary that she read Mazzini's journal Ricordi di giovani d'Italia during this period alongside other books about Rome, though the work is not explicitly named in the letter text itself.
“When I read from your hand these words 'il lungo esilio teste ricominciato, la vita non confortata fuorche d'affetti lontani e contesi, e la speranza lungamente protratta e il desiderio che commincia a farmisi supremo di dormire finalmente in pace, dache non ho potuto vivere in terra mia”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller quotes at length from Mazzini's own private writings or letters to her in Italian, explicitly framing her reference as "When I read from your hand these words" and engaging deeply with his reflections on exile and longing.
“Read "Ricordi ai Giovani d. Italia" by Mazzini. O word of fire. O thought pure solid illustrations on diamond. Man of Italy!”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1847–1849." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (94); Box 4.
“There is a report that Mazzini is to be made Dictator, as Manin is in Venice, for a short time”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXIX." New-York Daily Tribune, 16 May 1849. · 16 May 1849
“He was heard then only by a few, but in this “Italia del Popolo” may be found many prophecies exactly fulfilled, as those of “the golden haired love of Phœbus” during the struggles of Ilium.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXV." New-York Daily Tribune, 19 January 1849. · 19 January 1849
“ANSWER OF THE TRIUMVIRATE. We have the honor to transmit to you the answer of the Assembly. We never break our promises.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXXI." New-York Daily Tribune, 23 July 1849. · 23 July 1849
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“If you ever see Saunders' "People's Journal," you can read articles by him that will give you some notion of his mind, especially one on his friends, headed "Italian Martyrs.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.