WorkUgo Foscolo

“Essays on Petrarch”

Essays on Petrarch (London: John Murray, 1823)

Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827) · London: John Murray, 1823

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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.

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1845—

Letter to James Nathan

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“Last night came your book Foscolo on Petrarch. I have read this book but am very glad to own it, and to feel with what thoughts you sent it.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

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“Last night came your book — Foscolo on Petrarch. I have read this book, but am very glad to own it, and to feel with what thoughts you sent it. [...] P. S.”

Fuller, Margaret. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.