WorkGiovanni Battista Piranesi

Carceri d'invenzione; Le Antichità Romane; Vedute di Roma (inferred)

InferredMargaret Fuller engaged with Giovanni Battista Piranesi's striking architectural etchings, specifically referencing his series of imaginary prisons, the *Carceri d'invenzione*, and his studies of Roman antiquity, *Le Antichità Romane* or *Vedute di Roma*.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“With him she examined, leaf by leaf, the designs of Raphael, of Michel Angelo, of Da Vinci, of Guercino, the architecture of the Greeks, the books of Palladio, the Ruins, and Prisons of Piranesi”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred Margaret Fuller engaged with Giovanni Battista Piranesi's striking architectural etchings, specifically referencing his series of imaginary prisons, the Carceri d'invenzione, and his studies of Roman antiquity, Le Antichità Romane or Vedute di Roma.