WorkMichel de Montaigne
Essais [Essays], Book I, ch. 28: 'De l'amitié' ['Of Friendship']
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) · 1580–1588
InferredMargaret Fuller engaged deeply with Michel de Montaigne's *Essais*, finding resonance with his "singular fineness of his perceptions." Her enjoyment of his works, described by Emerson as almost an "equal ground" reception, placed him alongside esteemed literary figures like Homer, Dante, and Goethe, suggesting her profound appreciation for Montaigne's introspective and philosophical insights.
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Documented 1850
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“When you send this way, will you let me have the vol of Montaigne in which he speaks of his friend”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
“Margaret was struck with the singular fineness of his perceptions...”
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 engaged deeply with Michel de Montaigne's Essais, finding resonance with his "singular fineness of his perceptions." Her enjoyment of his works, described by Emerson as almost an "equal ground" reception, placed him alongside esteemed literary figures like Homer, Dante, and Goethe, suggesting her profound appreciation for Montaigne's introspective and philosophical insights.