WorkPetrarch (Francesco Petrarca)
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (1304–1374) · c. 1366
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Documented 1845
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Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
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.
“LODI E PREGHIERE A MARIA. Vergine bella che di sol vestita, Coronata di stelle, al sommo Sole Piacesti si, che'n te sua luce ascose...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Massive excerpted Petrarch poem spanning roughly 285 lines.
“the assumption of the Virgin, as painted by sublime artists, Petrarch's Hymn to the Madonna, cannot have spoken to the world wholly without result”
Inferred Named explicitly as 'Petrarch's Hymn to the Madonna'; this is Canzone 366, 'Vergine bella'. Fuller explicitly names 'Petrarch's Hymn to the Madonna' — the final canzone of the Canzoniere, 'Vergine bella, che di sol vestita,' which appears in full in Appendix B.
“LODI E PREGHIERE A MARIA. / Vergine bella che di sol vestita, / Coronata di stelle, al sommo Sole / Piacesti si...”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.