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The project "Pirandello's letters. Digital edition of the Collection of letters published and unpublished" fits inside of the works established by the National Committee for the Edition of the complete works of Luigi Pirandello, established by Decree of the The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism at 15/11/2016.
Coordinator of Correspondence in digital format: Beatrice Alfonzetti with the support of a team of scholars, Phd students, technicians of the Department and of other forums.
On the occasione of the 150. From the birth, has been set up an International Scientific Council which includes Alfonzetti v. http://pirandello.eu/international2017.
The project intends to prepare the first organic edition of the correspondence. It will be ordered chronologically unlike volumes so far appeared where the letters are collected by adressee, without any design to publish the entire corpus of letters.
Our project intends to fill this gap:
The letters will be built along two parallel activities:
a) transfer in digital format and publish, on a first step, in "Biblioteca Italiana", the letters published both in volume and scattered in magazines difficult to find, not reported in some cases in bibliographies;
b) found at archives and funds still unpublished letters and of which there are no news (es. Heirs Stefano Pirandello Papers now at the Library-Museum Luigi Pirandello in Agrigento).
The digital edition of the correspondence will be hosted on the platform Biblioteca Italiana.
The letters sent by Pirandello to family members, friends, editors, actors, cultural and theatrical operators, etc., they are of capital importance. To have an edition ordered chronologicaly ordered is essential for: writing intellectual biography of Pirandello (the last biography dates even back to 1960); rebuilding the Pirandello's numerous contacts and the genesis of his textes; studing of Pirandello's letters as a literary genre; supporting the works of National Edition (2017-2027).