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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Giuseppe Ungaretti

Correspondence and drawings, 1940

Estimate

€ 4.000 - 6.000

Sold

€ 5.100

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Large set including: pink folder with handwritten heading "Ungaretti" (29.5x23.2) and inside an original two-sheet Ungaretti typescript dated Rome, March 31, 1949, together with two other typewritten copies of the same text, revised; four autographed sheets by Ungaretti with text on Clerici; 13 letters from Ungaretti; 2 cardboard cards by Ungaretti with holographic envelope; a cardboard card by Ninon Ungaretti, Giuseppe's daughter; two cutouts, one with an address (6.7x22cm) and the other with a drawing by Ungaretti and postage stamps; letter from Agnès Humbert; typescript with a list of books and materials to be delivered to Clerici; postcard with signatures of Ungaretti
and Carlo Emilio Gadda § Life of a man , Milan, Mondadori, 1948. With dedication by Ungaretti to Clerici. § XXII sonnets of Schakespeare, Rome, Documento Editore Libraio, 1944
With dedication by Ungaretti to Clerici.
Together in the lot a delicate portrait of Ungaretti by Clerici, 1940s, mixed technique on shaped paper , 22 x 15 cm. in a wooden frame.
 

Specialist Notes

"Dear Clerici, I am very happy that you have agreed to do some illustrations for the Brazilian poems. The text and the accompanying notes will indicate more or less the themes. On the other hand, I am sending you books and photographic material with My other indications that may be useful to you. But of course: you will freely do your own fantasy, and you will do something perfect. Only for documentation it will be better to read carefully texts, notes, explanations, and look at the maps on the country. (...) he wrote from Rome on 12 September 1945 to Clerici, proposing him an interesting project which, presumably due to the war events, will not go through. The letters all revolve around this planned edition together but then testify, after some time, the signs of a lasting friendship that goes up to at least the 1960s. Significant testimony is the beautiful critical essay on the work of Clerici which is preserved here, in its various drafts, where already in 1949 Ungaretti, for his part, captures the Baroque nature of clerical poetics ... and much more. & Nbsp; & nbsp;