Margaret Fuller and That Vineyard: A Note

摘要

Anyone acquainted with the story of Margaret Fuller will remember that in one of her dispatches sent from Rome to the New York Tribune in January 1848 she wrote about "a splendid jewel, which a doting grandmother thought more likely to benefit her soul if given to the Bambino, than if turned into money to give her grandchildren education and prospects in life. The same old lady left her vineyard, not to these children, but to her confessor, a well-endowed Monsignor, who occasionally asks this youth, his godson, to dinner!"