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• Author/Creator:Steinberg, Saul.
  
• Title:Saul Steinberg correspondence to Aldo Buzzi, 1936-1999.
  
• Physical Description:2.9 linear feet (7 boxes)
  
• Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
  

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  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
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  • Call Number: YCAL MSS 1135
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:In Italian and English.
  Gift of the Saul Steinberg Foundation, 2018. The Saul Steinberg Correspondence to Aldo Buzzi is comprised of two accessions received by the library in January and May 2018.
  
• Organization:Arranged chronologically.
  
• Access and use:This collection is open for research.
• Biographical / Historical note:Aldo Buzzi was an Italian writer and architect who was active in Italian cinema circa 1940s-1960s. Buzzi was born in Como, Italy on August 10, 1919. He received an architecture degree from the Politecnico di Milano in 1938 where he met and befriended Romanian-born artist Saul Steinberg. Buzzi and Steinberg remained close friends until Steinberg’s death in 1999, maintaining a long-distance friendship through frequent correspondence. Buzzi published a number of books and essays inspired by their friendship and letters including Piccolo diario americano (1974) and Reflections and Shadows (2002). Buzzi’s partner of over 50 years was Bianca Lattuada sister to Italian filmmaker Alberto Lattuada. Buzzi and Bianca Lattuada both worked in the Italian film industry beginning in the 1940s, often on Alberto Lattuada’s films. After working as an assistant director and screen writer for Italian cinema through the 1960s, Buzzi became an essayist. He wrote and published books and essays, many on travel, from the 1970s through the early 2000s. Buzzi died in Milan on October 9, 2009.
  Saul Steinberg was an Romanian-born American artist and illustrator, known for his visual commentary on American life created for the The New Yorker magazine during the 1940s through 1990s, as well as for his drawings, paintings, collages, and sculpture.
  
• Summary:The papers are comprised of autograph manuscript letters from American artist Saul Steinberg to his friend, writer and architect Aldo Buzzi from 1936 to 1999. The papers in this collection comprise Steinberg’s half of the correspondence exchanged by the two friends during the course of their sixty-three-year-long friendship. Buzzi’s half of the correspondence, to Saul Steinberg, is in the Saul Steinberg Papers. Steinberg’s letters chronicle his personal and professional life as he relayed it to his friend. A few letters sent to Buzzi from friends of Steinberg are also included. These include Constantino Nivola, Steinberg’s sister Lica Roman, Steinberg’s partner Sigrid Spaeth, and Jean Stein.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid availible.
  
• Cite as:Saul Steinberg Correspondence to Aldo Buzzi. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Buzzi, Aldo.
  Nivola, Costantino, 1911-1988.
  Roman, Lica, 1913-1975.
  Spaeth, Sigrid, 1936-1996.
  Stein, Jean.
  Steinberg, Saul.
  Artists--United States.
  Artists, American--Archives.
  Cartoonists--United States.
  Illustrators--United States.
  Magazine illustration--United States.
  
• Occupation:Artists United States 20th century.
  Cartoonists United States 20th century.
  Illustrators United States 20th century.
  
• Also listed under:Buzzi, Aldo.