WorkVittorio Alfieri

Tragedies

Tragedies (written 1775?1786; published 1787?89, Turin: Peyronetti)

Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803) · 1787-1804

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Documented 1834–1845

Letters • Books

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1834—

Letter to Amelia Greenwood

p201

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“the works of Alfieri with his opinions on them”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Amelia Greenwood, 10 March 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 201–202. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller names Alfieri as part of her winter study course: 'the works of Alfieri with his opinions on them,' referring both to his tragedies and to his critical and autobiographical writings, chiefly the Vita and Del principe e delle lettere.

1845—

New-York Daily Tribune

“Italy. ? Cary's Dante” · July?August 1845

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“Not only the tragedies of Alfieri and the Faust of Goethe, but the Divina Commedia of Dante... are turned into school books for little girls who have just left their hoops and dolls”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p103

Inferred The author is explicit in Fuller's comments; the title is inferred to be the collected Tragedies (no single play is named).