Literary estates and archives in Italian

Heft mit handschriftlichen Notizen von Alice Ceresa für ihren Roman «Bambine» von 1990, der 1991 in deutscher Übersetzung von Maja Pflug erschien.

In addition to various manuscripts in Italian that were collected before the Swiss Literary Archives (SLA) were established, Giovanni Orelli’s donation of his literary archive opened the way for a more comprehensive collection of manuscripts by contemporary authors writing in Italian. Over recent decades, the SLA have expanded this collection to include the archives and literary estates of various individuals who document the different literary trends and rich creativity of writers in a multifarious cultural space. The holdings also include writings by practitioners from the Italian cultural scene in general.

The collections in focus

In the following list you will find holdings in Italian for which additional information is available or that are the subject of ongoing or completed research projects or publications. This list is updated regularly.

• Franco Beltrametti in the SLA
• Donata Berra in the SLA
• Alice Ceresa in the SLA
• Remo Fasani in the SLA
• Anna Felder in the SLA
• Giovanni Orelli in the SLA

Online inventories (EAD/HTML) of Italian-language collections

** = entire fond (as far as surviving or known)
* = partial fond

• Beltrametti, Franco (1937-1995)**
• Berra, Donata (1947- )**
• Ceresa, Alice (1923-2001)**
• Fasani, Remo (1922-2011)**
• Felder, Anna (1937- )**
• Gangale, Giuseppe (1898-1978)*
• Hindermann, Federico (1921-2012)**
• Inventario dei singoli documenti italofoni conservati all’Archivio svizzero di letteratura
• Jenni, Adolfo (1911-1997)**
• Livello, Edvige (1901-1999)**
• Martini, Plinio (1923-1979)**
• Mascioni, Grytzko (1936-2003)**
• Memoriav: Images et voix de la culture suisse (IMVOCS) (1998-2015)**: Ton-, Film- und Videodokumente aus den Beständen des SLA, des Max-Frisch-Archivs und der Radio- und TV-Archive der SRG SSR idée suisse
• Nessi, Alberto (1940- )**
• Orelli, Giovanni (1928-2016)*

List of Italian-language documents in other literary estates

• Inventario dei singoli documenti italofoni conservati all’Archivio svizzero di letteratura

List of the Italian-language collections and archives

HelveticArchives provides a general description of all Italian-language collections and archives held by the ALS, including those whose inventories are available upon request or are currently being compiled.

• HelveticArchives