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Whitman Archive Title: Boccacio
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00511
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
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Box: 1
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Folder: 38
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Repository Title: Glimpses of Walt Whitman from 1877 to '87
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Date: Between 1849 and 1860
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
A prose note about Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). According to Edward Grier, this scrap may have been part of a larger manuscript of notes about other Italian writers (see
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 5:1858). The text Whitman quotes comes from the
Westminster Review
, American Edition, LI, (July 1849): 187 (see Stovall, "Notes on Whitman's Reading,"
American Literature
26, no. 3, [November 1954]: 361). This manuscript could therefore date from as early as 1849, although it was most likely written in the 1850s. The manuscript is pasted down to a backing sheet, making the verso inaccessible.
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