WorkDante Alighieri

Inferno

Inferno (c. 1308–1320), Inferred

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) · c. 1308–1320

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Documented 1825–1846

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Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

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1842Divine Comedy / Inferno / Vita NuovaDemonstrated
“An edition of Cary's translation... studious youths and maidens have been reading the Inferno. Margaret had very early found her way to Dante”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · December, 1842
Engagement_type Translated automatically qualifies; describes Cary's Dante translation and her early acquaintance with Dante.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe2records

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1825—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

p. 58

excerpted · quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)

“Dante's inscription over the gate of hell. Canto 3rd Inferno. / "Per me si va nella cità dolente: / "Per me si va nell'eterno dolore: / "Per me si va tra la perduta gente.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Canto 3rd Inferno.' The famous inscription from the gate of Hell (Inferno III.1–9) is quoted in full in Italian. Also referenced on p. 139 where Fuller uses Dante's phrase 'Il mezzo del cammin di nostra vita' in her own prose.

Canto 3rd Inferno.' The famous inscription from the gate of Hell (Inferno III.1–9) is quoted in full in Italian.

1846—

Leigh Hunt’s Italian Poets.

“Leigh Hunt’s Italian Poets.”

quoted · read

“In the eighth canto of the Inferno, the devils insolently refuse the poet and his guide an entrance into the city of Dis: an angel comes sweeping over the Stygian lake to enforce it as the noise of his wings makes shores tremble”

Fuller, Margaret. "Leigh Hunt’s Italian Poets." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 February 1846. · 18 February 1846

1846—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VI.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VI.”

mentioned

“I saw here in Glasgow persons, especially women, dressed in dirty, wretched tatters, worse than none, and with an expression of listless, unexpecting woe upon their face, far more tragic than the inscription over the gate of Dante’s Inferno.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VI." New-York Daily Tribune, 23 December 1846. · 23 December 1846