Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1905-1983 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
88 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Piero Sraffa was born in Turin in 1898 the son of Angelo Sraffa, Professor of Commercial Law and Irma Tivoli. The young Sraffa was educated at the Liceo d'Azeglio and at the University of Turin where his honours thesis Monetary inflation in Italy during… read more
Repository
Archival history
The papers passed from Sraffa to Trinity College Library via Pierangelo Garegnani, Sraffa's literary executor
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Piero Sraffa
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Personal and family papers 1916-80, official papers 1905-81, correspondence 1911-83, miscellaneous notes 1923-63, notes for lectures 1927-31 and 1941-43, publications 1920-73, diaries 1927-81, bibliographical notes
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
The majority of the archive is open for consultation by readers with the exception of a few closed items which are marked as such.
Conditions governing reproduction
Following the death of Sraffa's literary executor, Prof Pierangelo Garegnani, Lord Eatwell took on the role. Any request to publish material from Sraffa's unpublished papers should be directed to him at Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET
Generated finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of copies
With the permission of the literary executor, digital copies of the papers are gradually being released online under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC-ND. Links to available digital copies are embedded in this catalogue
Related units of description
Sraffa's collection of the manuscript correspondence and notes of a number of important political economists and politicians, dating from the 17th-20th century, is also held at Trinity College Library.
Letters from J. M. Keynes and Ludwig Wittgenstein,… read more