Documents on Piero Sraffa at the Archivio Centrale Dello Stato and at the Archivio Storico Diplomatico
Including a Symposium on New Directions in Sraffa Scholarship
ISBN: 978-1-78714-540-5, eISBN: 978-1-78714-539-9
Publication date: 16 December 2017
Abstract
This chapter provides a list and a brief description of files and documents where the name of Piero Sraffa is mentioned and are currently kept at the Archivio Centrale dello Stato and at the Archivio Storico Diplomatico. For each file or document we provide indication of the reference number where it is conserved and a transcription of one or two of the relevant documents out of more than 500 which have been located. The purpose of the chapter is to illustrate the results of archival research of the last decade, including more recent findings, and furnish a groundwork for further research, which may throw further light on documents already known to us, and lead to the discovery of new documents or information, so as to provide a better basis for the reconstruction of the biography of Piero Sraffa and of people whose lives entwined with his – Antonio Gramsci certainly ranking high among them.
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Acknowledgements
The authors (joint editors of the correspondence between Piero Sraffa and Tatiana Schucht – forthcoming in Edizione nazionale degli scritti di Antonio Gramsci) wish to thank, with no further implications, Franco Aqueci, Leonardo Pompeo D’Alessandro, Giancarlo de Vivo, Giorgio Fabre, Barbara Gessa and Chiara Pisu (University of Cagliari), Andrea Ginzburg, Helmut Goetz, Claudio Mancini, Gerardo Padulo, Luigi Pasinetti, Alessandro Roncaglia, Maria Luisa Righi, Stefania Ruggeri, Graham Sells, Jonathan Smith, the staff of Archivio Centrale dello Stato and Archivio Storico Diplomatico del Ministero degli Affari Esteri, all the archival institutions mentioned in the chapter, an anonymous referee and the editors of the present volume. The Piero Sraffa Papers are kept at the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge (catalogue and online view available at https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0016%2FSRAFFA). Fascicles illustrated in sections 16 and 17 were indicated to us respectively by Giorgio Fabre and by Gerardo Padulo. Financial support from University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ is gratefully acknowledged. Sections 1–5, 8–11 and 16 were written by Nerio Naldi; sections 6–7, 12–15 and 17 were written by Eleonora Lattanzi. All translations of documents originally in Italian are by Graham Sells and Nerio Naldi.
Citation
Lattanzi, E. and Naldi, N. (2017), "Documents on Piero Sraffa at the Archivio Centrale Dello Stato and at the Archivio Storico Diplomatico", Including a Symposium on New Directions in Sraffa Scholarship (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 35B), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 61-100. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0743-41542017000035B002
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