1839—
Letter to Elizabeth Hoar
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“I have put a sprig as a book-mark into the Life of Raphael.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
WorkAntoine-Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy
Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de Raphaël [Life and Works of Raphael]
Antoine-Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy (1755–1849) · Paris: Le Clere, 1824
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Documented 1839–1844
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Letters • Notebooks
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Confirmed reading
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.
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- 1839Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de RaphaelAttested
“but have put a sprig as a book-mark into the Life of Raphael.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · amaica Plain 17th August 1839-
Physical evidence of mid-reading engagement: placing a bookmark in the Life of Raphael.
When Fuller engaged with this work
1844—
Letter to Maria Rotch
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“De Quincy's lives of Raphael and M. Angelo.”
The same sentence also names Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de Michel-Ange [Life and Works of Michelangelo]. Counted as one engagement.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
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Notebook: Artists
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“From / Histoire de la vie et des / ouvrages de Raphael / par M.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Artists." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (94); Box 6.
Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
1824—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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“She read, pen in hand, Quatremère de Quincy's lives of those two painters, and I have her transcripts and commentary before me.”
“To-day I have finished the life of Raphael, by Quatremere de Quincy, which has so long engaged me. It scarce goes deeper than a catalogue raisonné, but is very complete in its way.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.