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Collection of about 3400 letters collected in 20 folders. The collection of correspondence of Biagio Doria, known as Gino (Naples, 1888-1975), covers more or less the entire period of activity of the versatile Neapolitan intellectual, from the 10s to the 1960s. Director of the Museum of San Martino, an in-depth connoisseur of Neapolitan history and subtle bibliophile, as Guido Piovene recalled him, he always combined, in his professional activity, the drafting of articles with the publication of books, in which he recorded, especially in the period between two wars, the transition from the typical contribution of ordered historiography of an erudite kind to the style of a writing which, although rigorous and systematic, became a "micro-historiography of divertissement". The archive is made up of two parts: Doria's letters addressed to family and friends (332 missives); the letters to Doria (3077 missives). The latter, which represent the majority of the collection, consist of about half (1536 letters from 1959 to 1970) of various correspondence concerning his activity as a bibliophile, Director of the San Martino Museum, journalist. Correspondence with Italian and foreign publishers and antiquarian bookshops is particularly intense. Among these, the 84 letters from May 1929 to June 1955 by Tammaro De Marinis (Naples 1878 - Florence 1969), famous Italian antiquarian, bibliographer and bibliophile, merchant and collector of ancient books, distinguished scholar of book history and collector of ancient volumes . The list then continues with specific correspondence with Camillo D'Amelio, Angelo Flavio Guidi, Carmine Gallone, Adolfo Paturzo, Alessandro Cutolo, Edmondo Cione, Romolo Caggese etc.
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