WorkPublius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)

Georgica [Georgics]

Georgica [Georgics] (c. 29 BCE) Inferred

Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) (70 BCE–19 BCE) · c. 29 BCE

InferredBanner inscription 'Notitia Causarum' echoes Georgics II.490: 'Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas' (Happy he who could know the causes of things). The Critic's banner reads 'Notitia Causarum' — 'knowledge of causes' — directly echoing Virgil's famous line in Georgics II.490.

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Documented 1846

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

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✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Papers on Literature and Art

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“Its heavy folds of pearly gray satin slowly unfolding, gave to view the word Notitia, and Causarum would have followed, when a sudden breeze from the west caught it”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Inferred Banner inscription 'Notitia Causarum' echoes Georgics II.490: 'Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas' (Happy he who could know the causes of things). The Critic's banner reads 'Notitia Causarum' — 'knowledge of causes' — directly echoing Virgil's famous line in Georgics II.490.