- Scope and Contents
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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.
- Language of Materials
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In French and Italian.
- Conditions Governing Access
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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
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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
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Purchased from Christie's on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
- Arrangement
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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.
- Dates
- 1948-2013
- Extent
- 20.45 Linear Feet (62 boxes)
- Related Names
- Sanguinetti, Gianfranco, 1948-
- Language of Materials
- French
- Language of Materials
- French
- Language of Materials
- Italian