[>] “I feel”: FLIV, p. 283.
[>] “It must”: FLIV, p. 290.
[>] “every stone”: Dispatches, p. 140.
[>] “more attractive”: FLIV, p. 275.
[>] “worth an age”: FLIV, p. 290.
[>] “all the motions”: FLIV, p. 308.
[>] “elegantly furnished”: FLIV, p. 301.
[>] “my books”: FLIV, p. 301.
[>] second copy: FLV, p. 42.
[>] “I find myself”: FLIV, p. 310.
[>] “I live alone”: FLIV, p. 309.
[>] almost no “Amerns”: FLIV, p. 275.
[>] “I have seen”: MF, “Recollections of the Vatican,” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, vol. 27, July 1850, p. 65.
[>] “Since I have”: FLIV, pp. 310–11.
[>] “in a sort of beatitude”: ELIII, p. 444.
[>] “quite by myself”: FLIV, pp. 308–9.
[>] “a full communion”: FLV, p. 192.
[>] saltarello that “heated”: Dispatches, p. 176.
[>] “has developed”: Dispatches, p. 135.
[>] “I acted”: FLV, p. 292.
[>] “corrupt social contract”: FLV, p. 248.
[>] “lonely position”: WNC, p. 86.
[>] “viewed the whole”: FLIII, p. 236.
[>] “The union”: FLV, p. 41.
[>] “the existence”: Martha L. Berg and Alice de V. Perry, eds., “‘The Impulses of Human Nature’: Margaret Fuller’s Journal from June Through October 1844,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 102, 1990, p. 77.
[>] “Had I never”: FLV, p. 292.
[>] “thoughts of consecration”: OMII, pp. 293–94.
[>] “energetic and beneficent”: FLV, p. 51.
[>] “earthly union”: FLV, p. 248.
[>] “I wanted to forget”: FLV, p. 42.
[>] “mixture of fancy”: FLV, p. 300.
[>] “acts, not words”: FLVI, p. 53.
[>] “simple affinity”: FLV, p. 300.
[>] “inestimable blessing”: FLV, p. 291.
[>] “great faults”: FLV, p. 270.
[>] “wholly without vanity”: FLVI, p. 53.
[>] “the slightest”: FLV, p. 291.
[>] “very unlike” . . . “affections”: FLVI, p. 53.
[>] “lost” when he was: FLV, p. 299.
[>] “spontaneously bound”: FLV, p. 291.
[>] “something of the violet”: FLV, p. 283.
[>] “mutual tenderness” . . . “except”: FLV, pp. 301, 300.
[>] more “precious” even: FLVI, p. 65.
[>] their “tie” was not: FLV, p. 248.
[>] “all human”: FLV, p. 291.
[>] “the time”: FLV, p. 248.
[>] “need of manifold”: FLII, p. 159.
[>] “a part of”: FLV, p. 300.
[>] “when I am occupied”: FLV, p. 291.
[>] “no refreshment”: FLIV, p. 312.
[>] “highly prize”: FLIV, p. 299.
[>] “is happy”: FLV, p. 291.
[>] “I have not”: FLIV, p. 312.
[>] “first acquaintance”: “1849 Journal,” p. 3, FMW.
[>] “pious” Catholic youth: FLV, p. 278.
[>] “habitual attachment”: FLV, p. 291.
[>] “loves . . . to serve”: FLV, p. 300.
[>] “I am”: FLV, p. 182.
[>] “indolently joyous”: FLIV, p. 273.
[>] “this fantastic”: FLV, p. 251.
[>] “I liked”: FLVI, p. 65.
[>] “blessed, quiet”: FLIV, p. 315.
[>] “intoxicated” months: FLV, p. 43.
[>] “like retiring”: FLV, p. 283.
[>] “I should have wished”: FLVI, p. 65.
[>] “I now really live”: Dispatches, p. 168.
[>] “nightly fever”: FLIV, p. 310.
[>] “professional beggars” and account of visit to Santo Spirito Cemetery: Dispatches, pp. 169–71. See also Katherine A. Geffcken, “Burials on the Janiculum: The Cemetery of Santo Spirito,” in Katherine A. Geffcken and Norma W. Goldman, eds., The Janus View from the American Academy in Rome: Essays on the Janiculum (Rome: The American Academy in Rome, 2007), pp. 195–201.
[>] “noble exiles”: FLIV, p. 288.
[>] “The Sunset”: The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901), pp. 345–46.
[>] “truly the gentleman”: FLVI, p. 53.
[>] “none to help” . . . “incubus”: FLIV, p. 315.
[>] “accident or angel”: FLV, p. 43.
[>] “I am tired” . . . “nothing less”: FLIV, p. 314.
[>] “I rejoice”: ELIII, pp. 446–48.
[>] “God knows”: FLV, p. 40.
[>] “There are circumstances”: FLV, p. 57.
[>] “this year, I enter”: FLV, pp. 43, 41.
[>] “Rome is Rome”: FLV, p. 46.
19. “A BEING BORN WHOLLY OF MY BEING”
[>] “my view of the present”: FLIV, p. 315.
[>] “made a law”: FLV, p. 286.
[>] “God ’twas delicious”: Quoted in Dispatches, pp. 1–2.
[>] “my America”: Dispatches, p. 230.
[>] “Still Europe toils”: Dispatches, p. 164.
[>] “Our age is one”: Dispatches, p. 155.
[>] “the fortieth”: Dispatches, p. 203.
[>] “As to eating”: Dispatches, p. 206.
[>] “authentic news”: Dispatches, p. 207.
[>] “full insurrection”: Dispatches, p. 202.
[>] “revolution has now”: Dispatches, p. 208.
[>] “war is everywhere”: FLV, pp. 58–59.
[>] “I cannot”: FLV, p. 58.
[>] King Louis Philippe’s “dethronement”: Dispatches, p. 211.
[>] “I am nailed”: FLV, p. 61.
[>] “It is a time”: FLV, p. 58.
[>] “a great past”: FLV, p. 174.
[>] “squadron” of Polish: Dispatches, p. 223.
[>] “Mickiewicz is with me”: FLV, p. 55.
[>] “if bullets have ceased”: ELIV, p. 27.
[>] “I have him much better”: FLV, p. 55.
[>] “unswerving and most tender”: FLV, p. 261.
[>] “At present”: FLV, p. 55.
[>] “a bestower” . . . “a being”: OMII, pp. 294, 293.
[>] “Children, with all”: FLV, p. 64.
[>] “The Gods themselves”: FLV, pp. 59–60.
[>] “A million birds”: Dispatches, p. 216.
[>] “Now this long dark”: Dispatches, p. 209.
[>] “official” news: Dispatches, p. 216.
[>] “Miracolo, Providenza!”: Dispatches, p. 212.
[>] “O, Dante”: Dispatches, p. 223.
[>] “most beauteous”: Leona Rostenberg, “Mazzini to Margaret Fuller, 1847–1849,” American Historical Review, vol. 47, no. 1, October 1941, p. 73.
[>] “gorgeous shows”: FLV, p. 62.
[>] “abide in close”: FLV, p. 65n.
[>] “Italy was so happy”: FLV, p. 65.
[>] “bird’s-nest village”: Dispatches, p. 237.
[>] “I am going” . . . “into the mountains”: FLV, pp. 64, 67, and 69.
[>] “mountain solitude”: FLV, p. 86. Thomas Hicks’s portrait of MF can be seen in the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
[>] “a piece of the porphyry”: FLV, pp. 63–64.
[>] “only artist”: FLV, p. 307.
[>] “The artists’”: FLV, p. 168.
[>] “You must always”: FLV, p. 71.
[>] “What mystery”: Quoted in VM, p. 284.
[>] “sit in my obscure”: FLV, p. 69.
[>] “debility and pain”: ELIV, p. 61.
[>] “come live”: ELIV, p. 28.
[>] “a poverty”: ELIV, p. 33.
[>] “You are imprudent”: ELIV, p. 61.
[>] “there was a revolution”: ELIV, p. 72.
[>] “come to London”: E
LIV, p. 79.
[>] “I have much to do”: FLV, p. 66.
[>] “say to those”: FLV, p. 66.
[>] “Fortune favors”: FLV, pp. 64–65.
[>] “lonely mountain home”: FLV, p. 73.
[>] “frightened at a very”: Leopold Wellisz, “The Friendship of Margaret Fuller d’Ossoli and Adam Mickiewicz,” Bulletin of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, vol. 4, 1945–46, p. 116.
[>] “All life”: FLV, p. 210.
[>] “lonely, imprisoned”: FLV, pp. 79, 78. Margaret wrote to Giovanni in Italian; in some instances, as here, I have given both the English translation and the Italian to remind readers that the correspondence was conducted in Giovanni’s native tongue and to give a sense of Margaret’s fluency in the language.
[>] “According to these women”: FLV, p. 85.
[>] “hid[ing] thus in Italy”: FLV, p. 251.
[>] “fits of deep longing”: FLV, pp. 76–77.
[>] “a lively Italian”: FLV, p. 77.
[>] “The country”: FLV, p. 77. “Mrs. M.”: quoted in CCII, p. 390.
[>] “I don’t like”: FLV, pp. 81, 80.
[>] “I never see”: FLV, pp. 85–86.
[>] “hive of very ancient”: FLV, p. 208.
[>] “we are of mutual”: FLVI, p. 65.
[>] “figs, grapes, peaches”: FLV, p. 104.
[>] “if it is necessary”: FLV, p. 99.
[>] “All goes wrong”: FLV, pp. 105, 103.
[>] “ordeal” of the birth: FLV, p. 109.
[>] “seem worth”: FLV, pp. 74–75.
[>] “was I not cruel”: FLV, p. 292.
[>] “Carissimo Consorte”: FLV, p. 111. “Carissimo” is abbreviated as “Cmo.”
[>] “mio caro”: FLV, pp. 114, 115.
[>] “he refuses”: FLV, p. 116.
[>] “I am delighted”: FLV, p. 113.
[>] “very beautiful”: FLV, p. 112.
[>] “has your mouth”: FLV, p. 117.
[>] “he is still”: FLV, p. 124.
[>] “odious brothers”: GAO, quoted in CFII, pp. 348–49.
[>] “He knows”: FLV, p. 125.
[>] “seemed to look”: FLV, pp. 125–26.
[>] “exstatic smiles”: FLV, p. 302.
[>] “entire” nights: FLV, p. 199.
[>] “becomes more interesting”: FLV, p. 139.
[>] “has grown much fatter”: FLV, p. 141.
[>] “seclusion” in summer and December 1848 column: Dispatches, pp. 238–39.
[>] “Were you here”: FLV, p. 145.
[>] “this kind of pain”: FLV, p. 303.
[>] “empty of foreigners”: Dispatches, p. 239.
[>] “remained at their posts”: FLV, pp. 146–47.
[>] stormed the Quirinal: Dispatches, p. 242.
[>] “Thank Heaven”: FLV, p. 147.
[>] “Utopia is impossible”: FLII, p. 109.
[>] “at one time”: FLV, pp. 145, 147, 149.
[>] “These events”: FLV, pp. 147, 149.
[>] “Another century”: Dispatches, pp. 245–46.
[>] “Rome has at last”: Leona Rostenberg, “Margaret Fuller’s Roman Diary,” Journal of Modern History, vol. 12, no. 2, June 1940, p. 211.
[>] “seems to be well”: FLV, pp. 163–64.
[>] “seemed to recognize”: FLV, p. 165.
[>] “He seemed very excited” . . . “leave”: FLV, p. 167.
[>] “Rome is always”: FLV, p. 169.
[>] “men of princely”: Dispatches, p. 244.
[>] “the Murray”: FLV, p. 159.
[>] “veiled” . . . “struck up”: Dispatches, p. 255.
[>] “walked without”: Dispatches, p. 256.
[>] “ring all the bells”: Dispatches, p. 256.
[>] “The revolution”: Dispatches, p. 250.
[>] “people in U.S.”: FLV, p. 159.
[>] “large and brilliant”: FLIII, p. 39.
[>] “O Jamie”: FLV, p. 174.
[>] “I am leading”: FLV, p. 187.
[>] “screwed my expenses”: FLV, p. 158.
[>] “nothing can be more”: Dispatches, p. 260.
[>] “France is not to”: FLV, p. 171.
[>] “accomplish at least one”: FLV, p. 213.
[>] “I am not”: FLV, pp. 205–6.
[>] “true consolation”: FLV, p. 207.
[>] “little swaddled child”: FLV, p. 209.
[>] “a strangely precocious”: FLV, pp. 209–10.
[>] “I only live”: FLV, pp. 209–10.
[>] “The Roman Republic”: Dispatches, pp. 260–61.
[>] “King Wobble”: “Margaret Fuller’s Roman Diary,” p. 220.
[>] “Let us not”: Dispatches, p. 264.
[>] “I heard a ring”: FLV, p. 201. See also Denis Mack Smith, Mazzini (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), pp. 68–69.
[>] “the celestial fire”: FLV, p. 201.
[>] “as tranquil”: Dispatches, p. 274.
[>] “struggling unaided”: Dispatches, pp. 265–66.
[>] “the setting sun”: Dispatches, p. 274.
[>] “la cittadina”: VM, p. 299.
[>] “in excellent”: FLV, p. 218.
[>] “tell our secret”: FLV, p. 220.
[>] “We must pray”: FLV, p. 223.
[>] “I rose and went”: Dispatches, p. 256.
[>] “refreshment, keen and sweet”: MF, “Recollections of the Vatican,” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, vol. 27, July 1850, p. 65.
[>] “reaction” in Florence: “Margaret Fuller’s Roman Diary,” p. 220. I have amended the punctuation in the final sentence of this entry to conform to that of the original, MF “1849 Journal” bMs Am 1086 [4] FMW.
[>] “I wish I were”: Jeffrey Steele, ed., The Essential Margaret Fuller (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992), p. 19.
[>] “called to act”: FLV, p. 58.
[>] “fought like a man”: FLV, p. 241.
[>] Princess Belgioioso: Dispatches, p. 281.
[>] “Margherita Fuller”: Donato Tamblé, “Documents in the State Archive of Rome: Margaret Fuller’s Hospital Service During the Roman Republic,” in Charles Capper and Cristina Giorcelli, eds., Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007), pp. 243, 242.
[>] “female invasion”: Ibid., p. 246.
[>] “the soldiers”: Dispatches, p. 275.
[>] “quick and shameful”: Dispatches, p. 275.
[>] “Roman blood”: Dispatches, p. 276.
[>] “the terrible”: Dispatches, p. 280.
[>] “grand and impassioned”: FLVI, p. 83.
[>] “we climbed”: “Recollections of the Vatican,” p. 65.
[>] “mock confessions”: Dispatches, p. 279.
[>] six priests: Larry Reynolds, “Righteous Violence: The Roman Republic and Margaret Fuller’s Revolutionary Example,” in Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age, p. 188 n. 10.
[>] “brotherly scope”: Dispatches, p. 279.
[>] “the female”: Quoted in “Righteous Violence,” pp. 175–76.
[>] Casa Diez: Although several recent biographies of MF use the spelling “Dies,” I have chosen to use “Diez,” the spelling employed by Robert Hudspeth in FL and in the popular Murray guides of the period.
[>] “The French seem”: FLV, p. 229.
[>] “I am alone”: Dispatches, p. 284.
[>] “became a coward”: FLV, p. 292.
[>] “my heart”: FLV, p. 257.
[>] “could not see”: FLV, p. 293.
[>] “What shall I write”: Dispatches, p. 285.
[>] “terrible” battle: FLV, p. 238.
[>] “The Italians fought”: FLV, p. 239.
[>] “cannonade” continued: FLV, p. 238.
[>] “fails this time”: FLV, p. 240.
[>] “Rome is being destroyed”: FLV, p. 240.
[>]
“how terrible”; university student: FLV, p. 239; Dispatches, p. 300.
[>] “forget the great ideas”: FLV, p. 258.
[>] “the way of observation”: FLV, p. 240.
[>] “is perfectly well”: FLV, pp. 236, 235.
[>] “I am caught”: FLV, p. 240.
[>] “underrated” his friend: JMNVIII, pp. 368–69.
[>] “who pretend”: Dispatches, pp. 298–99.
[>] “the fatal”: Dispatches, p. 303.
[>] “watered with the blood”: “Recollections of the Vatican,” p. 64.
[>] “the balls”: Dispatches, p. 303.
[>] “for you only” . . . “My soul”: “Mazzini to Margaret Fuller,” p. 78.
[>] “whizzed and burst”: Dispatches, p. 303.
[>] “I don’t know”: “Mazzini to Margaret Fuller,” p. 78.
[>] “Government, Army and all”: Ibid., p. 79.
[>] “Wherever we go”: Arnold Whitridge, Men in Crisis: The Revolutions of 1848 (New York: Scribner’s, 1949), p. 190.
[>] “ready to dare”: Dispatches, p. 304.
[>] “Never have I seen”: Dispatches, pp. 304–5.
[>] “to and fro”: Dispatches, p. 306.
[>] “the holocaust”: Dispatches, p. 264.
[>] “But for my child”: FLV, p. 243.
[>] “left helpless”: FLV, p. 247.
[>] “A marble”: Dispatches, p. 310.
[>] three thousand: Katherine A. Geffcken, “Burials on the Janiculum: The Cemetery of Santo Spirito,” in Katherine A. Geffcken and Norma W. Goldman, eds., The Janus View from the American Academy in Rome: Essays on the Janiculum (Rome: The American Academy in Rome, 2007), p. 195.
[>] “Rest not supine”: Dispatches, p. 311.
[>] “I shall go”: FLV, pp. 243–44.
20. “I HAVE LIVED IN A MUCH MORE FULL AND TRUE WAY”
[>] “pale and trembling”: Lewis Cass Jr., quoted in CFII, p. 457.
[>] “much-exposed” apartment: Dispatches, p. 303.
[>] “I have united”: FLV, p. 250.
[>] “amid the roar”: FLV, p. 258.
[>] “worn to a skeleton”: FLV, pp. 245–46.
[>] “the cruel law”: FLV, pp. 258–59.
[>] “dearer self”: FLV, p. 257.
[>] the practice [of wet-nursing]: Michelle M. Dowd, Women’s Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); Valerie Fildes, Wet Nursing: A History from Antiquity to the Present (Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988); Janet Golden, A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996); Susan C. Greenfield and Carol Barash, eds., Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature, 1650–1865 (Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1999); David I. Kertzer, Amalia’s Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007); George D. Sussman, Selling Mothers’ Milk: The Wet-Nursing Business in France, 1715–1914 (Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, 1982).
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