Research Catalog

Title

Guglielmo Ferrero papers, 1871-1944, 1981 bulk 1890-1942

Author

Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942

Supplementary Content

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Details

Description

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Summary

• This collection contains correspondence, lectures, articles, manuscripts and printed material related to the life and work of Italian journalist, historian and novelist Guglielmo Ferrero.
• These papers contain correspondence, lectures, articles and manuscripts, and printed material related to the life and work of Italian journalist, historian and novelist Guglielmo Ferrero. The collection includes original manuscripts of his published and unpublished works. Of special note are his notes for lectures at the University of Geneva, out of which grew his trilogy: The Gamble ; The Reconstruction of Europe , and The Principles of Power. There is correspondence from such notables as Loria, Sforza, Orlando, Victor Margueritte, and Salvemini.

Subjects

• Italian literature
• Loria, Achille
• Croce, Benedetto, 1866-1952
• Notes
• Italy > History
• Sforza, Carlo, conte, 1872-1952
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Drafts
• Lectures
• Interviews
• Historians
• Proofs (printed matter)
• Novelists
• Articles
• Salvemini, Gaetano, 1873-1957
• Giretti, Eduardo
• Margueritte, V (Victor), 1866-1942
• Lecture notes
• Galley proofs
• Social scientists
• Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

Genre/Form

• Articles
• Drafts (documents)
• Galley proofs
• Interviews
• Lecture notes
• Lectures
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Notes (documents)
• Proofs (printed matter)

Access (note)

• Boxes A, B, and C are located on-site. The following boxes are located offsite: 1-134. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
• This collection has no restrictions.

Cite As (note)

• Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Guglielmo Ferrero papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Original Location (note)

• Willa Cather letters are on: microfilm.
• Benedetto Croce letters are on: microfilm.
• Eduardo Giretti letters are on: microfilm.

Terms of Use (note)

• Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Source (note)

• Source of acquisition--Raditsa, Nina Ferrero. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1961. Accession number--M-1961.
• Gift of Mrs Nina Ferrero Raditsa, 1961-1967, 1979& 1986.

Biography (note)

• Italian journalist, historian and novelist Guglielmo Ferrero (1871-1942) wrote for several European and Latin American newspapers and published more than ten books on ancient and modern European history. His interests included history, criminology, politics, religion, and literature.
• On his early works, Ferrero worked with Cesare Lombroso on topics such as Criminalist and Sociological Theory. Lombroso--who was his father-in-law--published with Ferrero his first essay Criminal Woman, the Prostitute and the Normal Woman . In the turn to the twentieth century, however, after a number of trips throughout Europe, Ferrero became interested in the study of the constitution of the European history and started to write extensively on topics of social, cultural and political formation of the continent.
• In 1907, Guglielmo Ferrero, accompanied by his wife Gina Lombroso, left Europe for almost a year and gave more than twenty lectures in Argentina and Brazil. In the following year, Ferrero was invited by American president Theodore Roosevelt to speak in the White House.
• As an outspoken critic of Fascism in the middle of the 1920s, Ferrero increasingly received threats from the Italian government. In 1925, Ferrero was placed under house arrest for refusing to leave Italy. After intense negotiations and the support of King Albert of Belgium, Ferrero and his family were exiled to Switzerland in 1929, and he accepted a professorship at the University of Genève. His lessons and lectures at this time focused mostly on the topics of formation of the European order from end of the Nineteenth Century to the end of the World War I. In the beginning of the 1930s Ferrero, who already wrote regularly for many French newspapers, began to write for several newspapers in Latin America. By the end of the decade Ferrero published a series of books that follow the topics of his lessons from University of Genève. L’Aventure, Bonaparte en Italie, Reconstruction: Telleyrand a Vienne and Pouvoir focus on the French Revolution and the ascension of Napoleon, but reflect his concerns of absolute power and lack of balance in the structure of the modern State.
• Ferrero died in 1942, in Switzerland.

Processing Action (note)

• Processed JLW 05/--/1986.
• This collection was processed by Daniella Diniz da Silva (Columbia University, GSAS 2013) and the Guglielmo Ferrero Research Group of the Italian National Council of Research. Finding aid written by Daniella Diniz da Silva in June 2010.

OCLC

• 122611312
• ocn122611312
• SCSB-4798165

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries