WorkAlessandro Manzoni
Il Conte di Carmagnola [The Count of Carmagnola], Act II Chorus (Milan: P. E. Giusti, 1820)
Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873) · Milan: P. E. Giusti, 1820
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Documented 1835–1846
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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“Tolga il ciel che alcuno Piu altamente di me pensi ch'io stesso. — Carmagnola / What author beside Manzoni would have ventured on such a sentiment...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-
Manuscript notebook entry copying a substantial Italian passage with accompanying commentary from Manzoni's play.
“Tolga il ciel che alcuno / Più altamente di me pensi ch'io stesso. — Carmagnola" ...”
Fuller, Margaret. "Poems, Others." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.
“Tutti fatti a sembianza d'an Solo, / Figli tutti d'un solo riscatto, / In qual'ora, in qual parte del suolo / Trascorriamo quest' aura vital, / Siam fratelli, siam stretti ad un patto /: / Maladetto colui clie loinfrangc, / Che s'innalza sul fiacco che piange / Che contrista uno spirto immortal.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
The footnote reads '* Manzoni.' (source line 1226).
“We would compare Mr. Taylor with the most applauded of living dramatists, the Italian Alessandro Manzoni. [...] 'Carmagnola, Adelchis die,' ?”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p140
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“I keep thinking of the lines by the purified Manzoni.”
Fuller, Margaret. "On Pain." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 2, Folder: 93.
“She quoted from Manzoni's Carmagnola, the lines: — 'Tolga il ciel che alcuno Piu altamente di me pensi ch'io stesso.' 'God forbid that any one should conceive more highly of me than I myself.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
This entry identifies a quotation from Alessandro Manzoni's tragedy, Il Conte di Carmagnola (1820).