Berenson Archive

The archive of the Berenson Library contains Bernard and Mary Berenson's published and unpublished manuscripts, notes, diaries, offprints of articles, biographical material, and personal photographs, as well as a large collection of letters written to the Berensons and a smaller collection of letters, copies or originals, written by Berenson, Mary, and Nicky Mariano. Over the years the archive has grown through donations or acquisitions of other collections.  It now includes papers of  Giorgio Castelfranco, Kenneth Clark, Andrea Francalanci, Frederick Hartt, Giuseppe Marchini, Emilio Marcucci, Nicky Mariano, Roberto and Livia Papini, Valeria Piacentini, Laurance P. and Isabel M. Roberts, Stanislaus Eric Stenbock, and the Whitall-Smith family, as well as extensive materials of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA), created after the 1966 flood and headquartered at I Tatti.  Finding-aids are available within the library for most collections. For the Berensons' correspondence, see also An Inventory of Correspondence, compiled by Nicky Mariano (Florence : Villa I Tatti, 1965), currently being updated but still useful.

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