Fonds SRAF - Papers of Piero Sraffa

Identity area

Reference code

SRAF

Title

Papers of Piero Sraffa

Date(s)

  • 1905-1983 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

88 boxes

Context area

Name of creator

(1898-1983)

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 duringread more

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 Any request to publish material from Sraffa's unpublished papers should be directed to him at Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET

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