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Cavagna
COLLECTION: Cavagna opera librettos and ballet programs
LOCATION AS OF 2001: In grey archival boxes on top of the Fraenkel cabinets on
the 2d floor of the Music Library
PROVENANCE: From personal library of Count Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di
Gualdana
WHEN ACQUIRED: 1921; stored in Music Library prior to 2000.
DESCRIPTION: Total of 568 items, largely dating from 1800-1850; the majority
from La Scala in Milan. (Some librettos also from Padua, Rome, and Vienna).
ARRANGEMENT: Arranged (in part alphabetically) between numbers 19,786 and 20,354
within a numbered series of Cavagna Collection document boxes.
ACCESS/FINDING AIDS/BIBLIOGRAPHY: Collections File folder ("Cavagna") contains
computer-produced shelf list of operas and ballets, providing information as to
composer, librettist, title, place, date and pagination. Folder also includes
term paper by graduate student Marcia Parks providing analysis of opera libretto
topics within this collection.
INDEX TERMS: Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio; Milan. La Scala
26. Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, collector.
The Cavagna
Library, 1116-1910.
ca. 30,000 volumes; manuscripts in 450 volumes and 138 portfolios.
Cavagna was an Italian public official and a recognized authority on the local
history of Lombardy and Piedmont. His library contained a great many books on
genealogy, biography, and local history, including
materials on municipal governments. The manuscripts especially reflect the study
of local history; most relate to Italian cities and towns, institutions,
societies and families.
All aspects of Italian history, from the Middle Ages to the first years of the
twentieth century, are prominently represented in the Cavagna collection, as is
literature on Italian art and architecture.
Other topics which are heavily represented are law, economics, biography,
archaeology, chivalry, and records of Italian universities and academies.
Among the books in the collection, mostly written in Italian, are some
incunabula, rare and early printed books, and first editions. Many of the
historical documents are unique. In addition to books, pamphlets,
and manuscripts, the Cavagna library includes several thousand maps, both
ancient and modern.
There is a published catalog of part of the collection:
Manuscripts and printed documents of the Archivio Cavana Sangiuliani in the
University of Illinois Library, compiled by Meta Maria Sexton.
Urbana, 1950.
Purchase, 1921.
(Major)
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