WorkLuigi Antonio Lanzi

Storia pittorica della Italia [The History of Painting in Italy, from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century]

Luigi Antonio Lanzi (1732–1810) · London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1828

InferredFuller explicitly recommends "Lanzi" as the essential Italian painting history, stating "Before you go into Italy I would read Lanzi."

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Documented 1844

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 York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Maria Rotch

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“Before you go into Italy I would read Lanzi or some good history of painting.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller explicitly recommends "Lanzi" as the essential Italian painting history, stating "Before you go into Italy I would read Lanzi."