Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Bartolomeo Pinelli(1781–1835)

Bartolomeo Pinelli is documented in Fuller’s letters (1847). One work is named, all in Letter to Sarah Shaw, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1847
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 Bartolomeo Pinelli

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Pinelli in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1847—

Letter to Sarah Shaw

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read
“A troop of the Trasteverini in those costumes we admire in Pinelli have just passed, colours flying, drums beating”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781–1835) was a Roman artist and engraver who published several widely circulated books of etched costume and genre illustrations; Hudspeth identified his Raccolta di costumi pittoreschi (Rome, 1809) as a standard work.