WorkHans Christian Andersen

The Improvisatore; or, Life in Italy

The Improvisatore; or, Life in Italy (translated by Mary Howitt, 1845; original Danish: Improvisatoren, 1835)

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) · translated by Mary Howitt, 1845; original Danish: Improvisatoren, 1835

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Documented 1849

Letters

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-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Richard F. Fuller

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“I live myself in the apartment described in Andersen's "Improvisatore" which get you and read as scene of the childhood of Antonio.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Fuller explicitly names "Andersen's 'Improvisatore'" and is currently living in the apartment in Rome described in the novel as the scene of narrator Antonio's childhood; she identifies her own room with one described in the novel and identifies it with a young painter (Hudspeth's notes clarify it is Federigo, a painter rather than a sculptor).