WorkDante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
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Documented 1845
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Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
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.
“At twenty-three she was so familiar with Dante that Emerson proposed her translating the "Vita Nuova.”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · At twenty-three she was so familiar with Dante
Engagement_type 'Translated' automatically qualifies per the rubric, tied to her documented familiarity with Dante at twenty-three.
“you seemed to think I might perhaps have done something on the Vita Nuova... I intended to translate the poems, with which it is interspersed, into plain prose”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · December, 1842
Engagement_type Translated automatically qualifies (her intended prose translation of the Vita Nuova poems).
“It was translations from the Nova Vita and Convito of Dante. The Vita Nova has been one of the most cherished companions of my life.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 13th Septr 45
'The Vita Nova has been one of the most cherished companions of my life' is an explicit first-person statement of sustained personal reading engagement.
“The versions of Cary and Lyell will be found of use to the student, if he wants to compare his ideas with those of accomplished fellow-students.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p105