WorkVittorio Alfieri

Vita di Vittorio Alfieri scritta da esso

Vita di Vittorio Alfieri scritta da esso (1804) Inferred

Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803) · Asti, 1804; first English trans.: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Victor Alfieri, Written by Himself, 1810

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Documented 1834–1840

Letters • Journals • Manuscripts

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. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1834—

Letter to Amelia

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“The works of Alfieri with his opinions on them_”

Also reprinted in The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. "Letter to Amelia." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.

Inferred Fuller explicitly states she has been reading 'The works of Alfieri with his opinions on them' as part of a self-designed winter study course (alongside Goethe/Schiller and the history of modern Europe). Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803), Italian dramatist, poet, and autobiographer.

1837—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

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“The Memoirs of Alfieri or Benvenuto Cellini, or among fictions Lockhart's "Reginald Dalton" Hope's "Anastasius" or Beckford's "Caliph Vathek" are very good.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1840—

Journal 1840

p22

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“On Alfieri. Aristrocratic democrat. High claims of autobiography on our attention.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).

Inferred Fuller plans an essay 'On Alfieri' describing him as 'aristocratic democrat' and highlighting his 'High claims of autobiography on our attention.' Alfieri's Vita (autobiography, published posthumously 1804) is the most famous of his prose works and the primary text associated with his 'aristocratic democratic' character. Title inferred as the Vita since Fuller explicitly highlights the autobiographical genre.