1839—
Letter to Elizabeth Hoar
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“I have put a sprig as a book-mark into the Life of Raphael.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Author
Antoine-Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy(1755–1849)
Antoine-Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy is documented in Fuller’s letters and reading notebooks (1839–1844). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Notebook: Artists, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
- Engagement
- ExcerptedAnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
- Present in
- Letters · Notebooks
- Documented
- 1839–1844
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 Antoine-Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
- Dated
- 1838Work not namedPossiblePosthumous testimony
“had read everything that related to Michael Angelo and Raphael, Quatremere de Quincy, Condivi, Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · before 1839
Same dated (before 1839) explicit reading claim naming Quatremere de Quincy.
- 1839Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de RaphaelAttested
“but have put a sprig as a book-mark into the Life of Raphael.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · amaica Plain 17th August 1839-
Physical evidence of mid-reading engagement: placing a bookmark in the Life of Raphael.
- 1840Life of MichelangeloAttested
“I send you a few slight notes I made on the Life of Michel, if you look at them when you read it”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · May 31st 1840
'Notes I made on the Life' when read implies active first-person reading with annotation of a specific work.
In Fuller’s words
“From / Histoire de la vie et des / ouvrages de Raphael / par M. Quatremère de Quincy, / de l'Institut royal de / France (académie des / inscriptions et belles-lettres) / Secrétaire perpetuel de / l'academie des beaux arts / troisième edition revue et / augmentée. [...] This book is written / without deep insight / or reproductive power / but with every mark / of that high culture of / taste only attainable / in the old world.”
When Fuller engaged with Antoine-Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Quincy in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1840—
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I send you a few slight notes I made on the Life of Michel, if you look at them when you read it, it will be as if I read it with you.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
1844—
Letter to Maria Rotch
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“De Quincy's lives of Raphael and M. Angelo.”
The same sentence also names Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de Michel-Ange [Life and Works of Michelangelo]. Counted as one engagement.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
n.d.—
Notebook: Artists
p5–p69“From / Histoire de la vie et des / ouvrages de Raphael / par M.”
“I see he has published a / work on Greek art called / le Jupitre Olympien / which I should like / much to see.”
“From de Quincy's life / of Michel Angelo / not so good as that of / Raphael both because / written with less love, / and because genius / alone could speak of / Michel”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Artists." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (94); Box 6.
Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
1824—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
p46excerpted · analyzed · read2 selected passages
“She read, pen in hand, Quatremère de Quincy's lives of those two painters, and I have her transcripts and commentary before me.”
“To-day I have finished the life of Raphael, by Quatremere de Quincy, which has so long engaged me. It scarce goes deeper than a catalogue raisonné, but is very complete in its way.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.