WorkGarci Rodríguez de Montalvo

Amadís de Gaula [Amadis of Gaul]

Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (c. 1450–c. 1505) · first printed 1508

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Documented 1841

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Letter to William H. Channing

p213

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“Perhaps I can do so from the tales of chivalry where I find what corresponds far more thoroughly with my nature than in these stoical statements.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller names 'Amadis' as a chivalric figure and refers to 'the friend of Amadis' and the 'tales of chivalry,' invoking the romance tradition surrounding Amadis of Gaul, the most famous Spanish chivalric hero, whose story was well known across Europe. The allusion points to Amadis de Gaula.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p144

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“Even so would Amadis wind slow, stately, calm, through the mazes of life, with Oriana, when he had made obeisances enough to win her for a partner.”

Inferred In her discussion of poetry and the arts during the ninth Conversation, Margaret Fuller references the Spanish chivalric romance Amadís de Gaula, first printed in 1508. She evokes the central romantic figures of Amadís and Oriana, suggesting their dignified and composed progression through life's challenges, much like a dancer navigating a courtship.

In her discussion of poetry and the arts during the ninth Conversation, Margaret Fuller references the Spanish chivalric romance Amadís de Gaula, first printed in 1508.

“The friend of Amadis expects to hear prodigies of valor of the absent Preux, but if he be mutilated in one of his first battles, shall he be mistrusted by the brother of his soul”

The archive identifies this reference to the proper noun "Amadís" as pointing to the influential Spanish romance.

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