Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, writings, notes, clippings, photocopies, posters, printed materials, legal papers, photographs, and digital media documenting the life and work of writer Gianfranco Sanguinetti. Correspondence with Guy Debord and others relates to Sanguinetti's involvement with the Situationist International, including its dissolution, as well as Sanguinetti's expulsion from France in 1971 and his writing under the pseudonym "Censor" in 1975. Writings include drafts of Sanguinetti's Prove dell'inesistenza di Censor, Rimedio a tutto, Del terrorismo e dello stato, and other works. Photographs, mostly by Sanguinetti, show fellow Situationists including Guy Debord, Mustapha Khayati, Raoul Vaneigem, and others.
Dates
- 1948-2013
Creator
Language of Materials
In French and Italian.
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Box 62 (digital media): Restricted fragile material. Access copies of digital files may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Conditions Governing Use
The Gianfranco Sanguinetti Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Christie's on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
Arrangement
Arranged in the order established by Gianfranco Sanguinetti and in which the collection was received from Christie's.
Sanguinetti organized the papers into fifty numbered binders. Papers have been removed from the binders, but remain organized and described in binder order.
Extent
20.45 Linear Feet (62 boxes)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The collection consists of correspondence, writings, notes, clippings, photocopies, posters, printed materials, legal papers, photographs, and digital media documenting the life and work of writer Gianfranco Sanguinetti. Correspondence with Guy Debord and others relates to Sanguinetti's involvement with the Situationist International, including its dissolution, as well as Sanguinetti's expulsion from France in 1971 and his writing under the pseudonym "Censor" in 1975. Writings include drafts of Sanguinetti's Prove dell'inesistenza di Censor, Rimedio a tutto, Del terrorismo e dello stato, and other works. Photographs, mostly by Sanguinetti, show fellow Situationists including Guy Debord, Mustapha Khayati, Raoul Vaneigem, and others.
Gianfranco Sanguinetti
Gianfranco Sanguinetti (born 1948) is an Italian writer. He was a member of the Situationist International in the 1960s and, with Guy Debord, one of two final members when it dissolved in 1972.
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections as they are acquired, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.
This collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing and minimal organization.
Information included in the Description of Papers note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection or revisions in arrangement and description.
The following is a key to the abbreviations used in the following description, which is repurposed from the dealer descrciption: MS = manuscript; TS = typescript; L = letter; GFS = Gianfranco Sanguinetti; PH = photocopie.
- Born digital
- Counterculture -- Europe
- Debord, Guy, 1931-1994
- Internationale situationniste
- Khayati, Mustapha
- Photographs
- Sanguinetti, Gianfranco, 1948-
- Situationism -- France
- Situationism -- Italy
- Situationist literature -- France -- Paris -- 20th Century
- Situationist literature -- Italy -- 20th Century
- Vaneigem, Raoul, 1934-
- Title
- Guide to the Gianfranco Sanguinetti Papers
- Author
- by Beinecke Staff
- Date
- March 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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