WorkAlessandro Manzoni

“Il Cinque Maggio”

"Il Cinque Maggio" (1821) Inferred

InferredFuller names Manzoni twice: once in comparison to De Vigny's handling of Captain Renaud ('the spiritual beauty of Manzoni'), once comparing Béranger's 'Le Cinq Mai' to 'Manzoni's.' No specific work is named in either instance, but the context of the second reference — Napoleon's death on 5 May 1821 — points specifically to Manzoni's ode 'Il Cinque Maggio' (1821).

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Documented 1839

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Confirmed reading

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.

undatedIl cinque Maggio (Ode on the Death of Napoleon)Demonstrated
“Beautiful passages from Manzoni. "Che dolermi dovea?..." Ode _ In morte di Napoleone (Il cinque Maggio.) Ei fu:siccome immobile,”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
Substantial multi-line quoted passage from Manzoni's ode, qualifying as sustained excerpting.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger

p34, p50

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“the unfolding of his interior life are done with the spiritual beauty of Manzoni! [...] the sentiment is as grand as Manzoni's, though not sustained by the same majestic sweep of diction.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller names Manzoni twice: once in comparison to De Vigny's handling of Captain Renaud ('the spiritual beauty of Manzoni'), once comparing Béranger's 'Le Cinq Mai' to 'Manzoni's.' No specific work is named in either instance, but the context of the second reference — Napoleon's death on 5 May 1821 — points specifically to Manzoni's ode 'Il Cinque Maggio' (1821).