Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)(c. 61–c. 112 CE)Inferred

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) is documented in Fuller’s books (1843). One work is named, all in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

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1843
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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 →

In Fuller’s words

“for Mariana had the kind of spirit, which, in a better cause, had made the Roman matron truly say of her death-wound, "It is not painful, Poetus.”
Epistulae [Letters] · Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 · 1843

When Fuller engaged with Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Secundus in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

quoted · read
“for Mariana had the kind of spirit, which, in a better cause, had made the Roman matron truly say of her death-wound, "It is not painful, Poetus.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller quotes the famous last words of Arria the Elder (wife of Caecina Paetus), who stabbed herself to show her condemned husband how to die bravely (AD 42), handing him the dagger and saying 'Paete, non dolet' ('It is not painful, Paetus'). The anecdote is preserved in Pliny the Younger, Letters III.16.