- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936.
- Title:
- Luigi Pirandello Correspondence with Marta Abba
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qn59q401k
- Dates:
- 1923-1936
- Size:
- 15 boxes and 3.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-15
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of correspondence between Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello and the Italian actress Marta Abba, who spent much of her life interpreting his plays. Pirandello's forty-three plays, as well as other literary works, are discussed in the correspondence, which reveals the special "maestro-disciple" relationship shared by the couple.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of correspondence between Pirandello and the Italian actress Marta Abba, who spent much of her life interpreting his plays. Pirandello's forty-three plays, as well as other literary works, are discussed in the correspondence, which reveals the special "maestro-disciple" relationship shared by the couple. She died in 1988.
His original letters are listed below (Boxes 1-6). Abba retained the originals of her letters to him, but supplied the photocopies noted in Boxes 7 and 8.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936.
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was an Italian playwright.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Acquired in 1986 from Marta Abba. Additions from Mrs. Christian Aall in 1989.
- Custodial History
The original letters by Abba to Pirandello were retained by her.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed in 2002. Finding aid written in 2002.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Luigi Pirandello Correspondence with Marta Abba; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qn59q401k
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-15
Find More
- Existence and Location of Copies
The collection is also available on microfilm.
- Bibliography
Luigi Pirandello's letters to Marta Abba have been published: Pirandello's love letters to Marta Abba, edited and translated by Benito Ortolani (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994).
- Subject Terms:
- Actresses -- Italy -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Dramatists, Italian -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Italian drama -- 20th century.
Theater -- Italy -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence.
- Names:
- Abba, Marta
