Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Ippolito Pindemonte(1753–1828)

Ippolito Pindemonte is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts. One work is named, all in Mostly Extracts, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in
Manuscripts

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Ippolito Pindemonte’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • undatedanswer to Dei SepolcriAttested

    “Read Ugo Foscolo's Sepolcri, and Pindemonti's answer, but could not relish either”

    Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

    "Read Ugo Foscolo's Sepolcri, and Pindemonti's answer" is an explicit first-person reading statement naming both works.

When Fuller engaged with Ippolito Pindemonte

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
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.

Pindemonte in Fuller’s reading world

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.

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Mostly Extracts

p25
excerpted · quoted · readManuscript page
“E Natura, onde legge ebbe ogni cosa, / Che pietra, e moto in un congiunti vede, / Per un instante si riman pensosa!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Mostly Extracts." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (89); Box 5 (89).

Inferred The notebook heading reads 'Pindemente on Canova's Hebe.' The Italian verse ('E Natura, onde legge ebbe ogni cosa...') is identified as Pindemonte's poem on Canova's statue of Hebe. The three Italian lines quoted here are from that poem.

The notebook heading reads 'Pindemente on Canova's Hebe.' The Italian verse ('E Natura, onde legge ebbe ogni cosa...') is identified as Pindemonte's poem on Canova's statue of Hebe.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p200
read
“Pindemonti's answer”

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 engaged with Ippolito Pindemonte's I Cimiteri (1807), a poetic response to Ugo Foscolo's Dei Sepolcri. Evidence suggests Fuller read these works in proximity, likely during an illness around 1835, as indicated by her reference to "Pindemonti's answer."