Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkUgo Foscolo

Discorso sul testo della Commedia di Dante / Essays on Petrarch [Discourse on Dante's Text / Essays on Petrarch]

Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827) · c. 1825

InferredFuller labels section 'From Foscolo.' (p94) and copies extensive Italian-language passages on Dante's Canto 10 of the Inferno, the souls of Dante and Petrarch, and literary criticism. The text includes Italian critical prose discussing Dante, Petrarch, Homer, 'i poeti Ebrei' (Hebrew poets), and the contrast of their souls.

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Documented 1836

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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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  • 1845Essays on PetrarchAttested

    “Last night came your book Foscolo on Petrarch. I have read this book but am very glad to own it”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 13th Septr 45

    'I have read this book but am very glad to own it' is an explicit first-person reading statement.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p94–p96
excerpted · readManuscript page
“From Foscolo._ / Chi crede anzi alle sue parole (di Dante) a' suoi sacerdoti [...] Il passaggio istantaneo, in quel canto (10th) [...] I danni che la troppa fede in un testo [...] Le anime di Dante e del Petrarca più ch'altre [...]”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).

Inferred Fuller labels section 'From Foscolo.' (p94) and copies extensive Italian-language passages on Dante's Canto 10 of the Inferno, the souls of Dante and Petrarch, and literary criticism. The text includes Italian critical prose discussing Dante, Petrarch, Homer, 'i poeti Ebrei' (Hebrew poets), and the contrast of their souls.