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Angelo Poliziano is documented in Fuller’s letters (1827). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Letter to Susan Prescott, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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 →
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I am engrossed in reading the elder Italian poets, beginning with Berni, from whom I shall proceed to Pulci and Politian.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller names Politian (the Latinized name of Angelo Poliziano) as part of her planned reading of Italian poets, though she has not yet read him and no specific work is named.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“beginning with Berni, from whom I shall proceed to Pulci and Politian. I read very critically.”
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 In her January 1827 reading plan, Margaret Fuller included Angelo Poliziano, an Italian humanist. She mentions him as the third elder poet she intends to read, following Berni and Pulci, and notes her intention to read "very critically," suggesting a studious engagement with his works.