WorkTorquato Tasso

Lettere [Letters]

Lettere [Letters] (collected and published posthumously; principal Italian edition by Cesare Guasti, 5 vols., Florence: Le Monnier, 1852–55; earlier collected editions by Serassi and others)

Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) · collected and published posthumously; principal Italian edition by Cesare Guasti, 5 vols., Florence: Le Monnier, 1852–55; earlier collected editions by Serassi and others

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Documented 1841

Journals

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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 →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Journal November 1841

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“The mind shows itself dull to think, the fancy sluggish to imagine, the senses heavy in ministering to the imagination, the hand slow to write, the pen forgetful of its office, and all my faculties chilled, stunned, stupefied, and overwhelmed.' From his letter to the duke d'Urbino.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal November 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 5.

The first is attributed to 'his letter to the duke d'Urbino' — Tasso (imprisoned 1579–1586 at Sant'Anna) wrote extensively to princes and patrons including the Duke of Urbino.