WorkGiovanni Boccaccio

Decameron

Decameron (c. 1353) Inferred

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) · c. 1353

InferredFuller mentions 'Boccaccio' by name in the context of a comparison; the specific work is not named. Fuller references Boccaccio in passing comparison to Berni's treatment of religious relics, noting that in Boccaccio the irreverence toward miracles and relics is 'ill concealed.' This likely alludes to the Decameron, which contains many anti-clerical stories. Margaret Fuller alludes to Giovanni Boccaccio's *Decameron* (c.

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Reading Notebook 1825–1827

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“In Boccaccio, now, you see ill concealed division of / Miracles and relics _ But Berni was a church / dignitary”

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

Inferred Fuller mentions 'Boccaccio' by name in the context of a comparison; the specific work is not named. Fuller references Boccaccio in passing comparison to Berni's treatment of religious relics, noting that in Boccaccio the irreverence toward miracles and relics is 'ill concealed.' This likely alludes to the Decameron, which contains many anti-clerical stories.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p265

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“tales were told as full of grace and pathos as in the gardens of Boccaccio, only in a very different spirit; — with noble hope for man, with reverence for woman.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred Margaret Fuller alludes to Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (c. 1353), referencing its famed frame narrative of storytelling within idyllic gardens.