Author
Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder) is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks. One work is named, most often in Notebook: Sir Thomas Browne, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.
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 →
No datable encounters with Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the Elder) have been catalogued yet.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
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.
“Whatsoever else the world terms happiness is to me a story out of Pliny, a tale of Boccace or Malizpini”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Sir Thomas Browne." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (87); Box 6 (87).
Inferred No specific work named; title inferred as Naturalis Historia.
“So it might be said of / him as Pliny said of Apelles / Scripsit et de sua arte.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Artists." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (94); Box 6.
Inferred Fuller does not name the specific work but the Latin quotation 'Scripsit et de sua arte' referring to Apelles uniquely identifies Natural History Book 35.