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Della vita di Antonio Canova [Life of Antonio Canova]

Melchior Missirini (1773–1849) · 1824

InferredFuller copies numerous Italian quotations attributed to Canova (letters, statements, incidents from his life) across pp. 25–30 with editorial headings like 'Mia fibra says Canova in a letter,' 'In early youth when he first modelled,' 'Modelling the head of Napoleon C. said to him,' 'From a letter thanking Napoleon,' and 'his letters on such occasions.' This indicates a biographical source, and the standard Italian biography of Canova containing his letters is Missirini's Della vita di Antonio Canova (1824).

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pp25–30
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“mia fibra e cosí facilmente irritabile che al solo nome di pubblico impiego s'agita subito, e si risente.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Mostly Extracts." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (89); Box 5 (89).

Inferred Fuller copies numerous Italian quotations attributed to Canova (letters, statements, incidents from his life) across pp. 25–30 with editorial headings like 'Mia fibra says Canova in a letter,' 'In early youth when he first modelled,' 'Modelling the head of Napoleon C. said to him,' 'From a letter thanking Napoleon,' and 'his letters on such occasions.' This indicates a biographical source, and the standard Italian biography of Canova containing his letters is Missirini's Della vita di Antonio Canova (1824).

She also copies the passage beginning 'I tratti del suo viso...' attributed to an 'English journal' as translated into Italian.