Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkLuigi Pulci

Il Morgante Maggiore [Morgante Maggiore]

Luigi Pulci (1432–1484) · 1483

InferredHudspeth identified his major work as *Il Morgante Maggiore* (1483), the most likely text for such a reading program, though Fuller has not yet begun reading him.

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Documented 1827

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1827—

Letter to Susan Prescott

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“I am engrossed in reading the elder Italian poets, beginning with Berni, from whom I shall proceed to Pulci and Politian.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Hudspeth identified his major work as Il Morgante Maggiore (1483), the most likely text for such a reading program, though Fuller has not yet begun reading him.