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Series I: Casa Italiana Directors' records
Series III: Architectural drawings and studies

Italian Academy records, 1934-2002

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Series I: Casa Italiana Directors' records


Box 1 Folder 1 Abstracts, 1970s

(Talks held at the Casa)

Box 1 Folder 2 Accademia dei Lincei, undated


Box 3 Folder 22 Accademia Monteverdiana, 1969-1974


Box 5 Folder 1 Addresses, 1980s


Box 3 Folder 11 Advertisements, 1972-1973


Box 1 Folder 3 Albanese, Licia, 1975

Box 1 Folder 4 Alitalia, 1974

Box 1 Folder 5 L'Ambasciatore d'Italia, 1975

Box 1 Folder 7 America-Italy Society, 1974-1975

Box 1 Folder 6 American Council of Learned Societies, 1973

Box 1 Folder 8 American-Italian Historical Association, 1967-1972

Box 1 Folder 9 Amita, Inc., 1972-1974

Box 1 Folder 10 Antologia del Film Italiano, 1973


Box 3 Folder 2 Anush Quartet, 1980


Box 1 Folder 11 Architect's Report, 1973 January 17

(Report from the Office of the Campus Architect on the Casa Italiana Restoration Program Estimate of Costs)

Box 1 Folder 12 Ariosto contract, 1975

(Ariosto 500 in America. Saggi del centenario ariostesco alla Columbia University)


Box 4 Folder 25 Arrangements, 1969-1970


Box 1 Folder 15 Art Exhibit - Contemporary Italian Sculpture, 1961-1962

Box 1 Folder 21 Art Exhibit - Contemporary Prints from Italy, 1959

Box 1 Folder 20 Art Exhibit - Luciano Guarnieri, 1959

Box 1 Folder 14 Art Exhibit - New Generation in Italian Art, 1961

Box 1 Folder 19 Art Exhibit - Painting in Post War Italy, 1957-1963

Box 1 Folder 13 Art Exhibit - Sahara Art, 1961

Box 1 Folder 16 Art Exhibit - Steffanutti, 1967

Box 1 Folder 18 Art Exhibits, 1955-1957

Box 1 Folder 22 Art Properties, 1976

(Campus memo re: cases of vandalism)


Box 3 Folder 38 Artistic/intellectual publications, 1975-1979


Box 1 Folder 23 Artists, Italian, 1975

Box 1 Folder 24 Audio-Visual Aids (Lee N. Heller), 1973-1974

Box 1 Folder 25 Auditorium Floor Plan, 1975

Box 1 Folder 26 B, 1956-1974

Box 1 Folder 27 Bargellini, Piero Luncheon, 1967

(Mayor of Florence)

Box 1 Folder 28 Barolini, Antonio, 1955-1956

Box 1 Folder 29 Battisti, Eugenio, 1973


Box 2 Folder 14 Benefit concert, 1976


Box 1 Folder 30 Benemerenze, 1973

Box 1 Folder 31 Berini, Bianca concert, 1975


Box 2 Folder 41 Berl, Christine (pianist), 1983

(Includes 7.5" recording of Beethoven's Sonata Op. 109, Chopin's Ballade #4 in F, Ravel's "Ondine" from Gaspard de la Nuit)


Box 3 Folder 10 Berlin, Isaiah lectures on Machiavelli, 1969


Box 1 Folder 32 Biaggi, Mario, 1973-1975

Box 1 Folder 33 Bicentennial (U.S.) celebration, 1975

Box 1 Folder 34 Bigongiari, Dino, 1964-1965

Box 1 Folder 35-36 Board of Elections, 1972-1975, 2 folders

(Casa Italiana as a polling place)

Box 1 Folder 37 Boccaccio, 1975

Box 1 Folder 38 Bompiani, Giuseppe, 1973

Box 1 Folder 39 Bonomo, Richard, 1969-1973

Box 1 Folder 41 Book exhibit -Books on Italian civilization, 1967


Box 3 Folder 28 Books Abroad, 1955-1970


Box 1 Folder 40 Books exhibition, 1955-1957

(Exhibitions of Italian language texts and books)


Box 3 Folder 21 Botta, Carlo, 1969


Box 1 Folder 42 Brambilla, Roberto, 1974

(Institute for Environmental Action. U.S. Bicentennial exhibtion, "More Streets for People.")

Box 1 Folder 43 Branca, Vittore, 1971-1975

Box 1 Folder 44 Cable, 1975

Box 1 Folder 46 Caffe e Conversazione, 1969-1973

Box 1 Folder 45 Casa administration, 1973-1975

Box 1 Folder 48 Casa budget, 1973

Casa calendars

Box 1 Folder 49 1951-1954

Box 1 Folder 50 1955-1956

Box 1 Folder 51 1956-1958

Box 1 Folder 52-59 1961-1969, 8 folders

Casa correspondence files


Box 2 Folder 1 1962-1963

Box 2 Folder 2 1965-1967

Box 2 Folder 3 1967-1968


Box 4 Folder 27-28 1968 June-1970 June, 2 folders


Box 2 Folder 4 1969-1970

Box 2 Folder 5 1970-1971

Box 2 Folder 6 1972-1973

Box 2 Folder 7 1979-1981

Box 2 Folder 24 1977-1982


Box 10 Folder 2 Center for Italian Studies correspondence, 1982


Box 5 Folder 8 Memos / letters, 1983-1985

(Sartori, Giovanni, Director of the Center for Italian Studies)

Casa events

(invitations, flyers, newsletters)


Box 2 Folder 8 1969 November

Box 2 Folder 9 1969 December

Box 2 Folder 10 1970 January-February


Box 5 Folder 9 Programs, cancelled, 1984

Box 5 Folder 10 Programs, proposals, 1982

Casa events correspondence


Box 3 Folder 5 1979-1980

Box 3 Folder 6 1980-1981

Box 3 Folder 7 1983


Box 10 Folder 6-8 Casa event programs, 1982-1984, 3 folders


Box 1 Folder 17 Casa Italiana 30th Anniversary, 1957


Box 3 Folder 34 Casa Italiana 35th Anniversary, 1962


Box 1 Folder 47 Casa Italiana 46th Anniversary, 1973


Box 3 Folder 39 Casa Italiana 50th Anniversary, 1977


Box 2 Folder 44 Casa Italiana 50th Anniversary program committee, 1977


Box 3 Folder 37 Casa Italiana Educational Bureau, 1934-1936


Box 2 Folder 21 Casa memos, 1984

(from Assistant Director Priscilla Strauss)


Box 3 Folder 25 Casa merit awards, 1961

Box 3 Folder 26 Casa merit awards, 1962

Box 3 Folder 27 Casa merit awards, 1966


Box 2 Folder 15 Casa newsletter, 1976 June


Box 3 Folder 42 Casa proposals and contacts, 1976-1978


Box 2 Folder 20 Cascio, Rose, 1973-1975

Box 2 Folder 31 Casella, Mary, 1982


Box 3 Folder 41 Catherine of Siena anniversary event, 1979


Box 2 Folder 27 Cavallo, Adolph S., 1982

(Barberini tapestry)


Box 5 Folder 6 Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS), 1984-1986


Box 1 Folder 61 Concert - Jacqueline Schweitzer, 1975

(Maison Francaise and Casa Italiana)

Box 1 Folder 60 Concert - La Boheme, 1975

(Italian Cultural Club and the Casa Italiana)

Box 1 Folder 63 Concert - La Juive, 1975

(Opera by Licia Albanese)


Box 2 Folder 22 Concert - Orchestra di S. Pietro, 1964

Box 2 Folder 23 Concert - Orchestra di S. Pietro, 1968


Box 3 Folder 24 Concert series, 1964-1965


Box 1 Folder 62 Conference - Vico and Contemporary Thought, 1976

(Giambattista Vico)


Box 2 Folder 29 Coro Stelutis, 1982

Box 2 Folder 18 Costume ball "Spirit of 1776", 1976

(U.S. Bicentennial)


Box 4 Folder 2 Cristo-Loveanu book presentation, 1969

(The Romanian Language)


Box 3 Folder 8 D'Antuono, Angela, 1982


Box 2 Folder 19 Dante symposium "The Divine Comedy: The Conquest of Death", 1976

Box 2 Folder 30 De Beneditti, Claudio, 1979-1983

Box 2 Folder 13 Domenico Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto, 1976

(The Puccini Foundation)


Box 3 Folder 19 Einaudi, Mario, 1955-1956

Box 3 Folder 23 Faculty Art Show, 1968-1969

(Photographs)


Box 2 Folder 46 Ferraro, Angelo, 1982


Box 1 Folder 64 Festival of New Italian Plays in English, 1975


Box 10 Folder 4 Festival of New Italian Plays, 1975-1976


Box 5 Folder 3 Festival of Italian Theater in New York (Fourth), 1979


Box 4 Folder 24 Finances, 1969-1970


Box 5 Folder 2 Fratti, Mario, 1983


Box 2 Folder 11 Gala benefit, 1976


Box 5 Folder 7 Gennaro, Aceto, 1984


Box 2 Folder 34 Graduate student symposium, 1980-1983


Box 5 Folder 5 I Giullari di Piazza, 1982-1984


Box 10 Folder 5 Italian Heritage and Culture Week, 1982-1984


Box 2 Folder 36 Italian Heritage and Culture Week, 1983


Box 3 Folder 35 Italian Teachers Association (ITA), 1958-1974


Box 2 Folder 33 Kurtz, Beth, 1982

(Capricorn Theare Company)


Box 1 Folder 65 La Cazone Internazionale, 1976


Box 3 Folder 20 Lauro, Achille, Mayor of Naples, 1955-1956

(Lauro Fellowship)


Box 10 Folder 3 Laviosa, Angelo, Bequest, 1984


Box 2 Folder 47 Magaletta, Giuseppe, 1982

Box 2 Folder 48 Mancuso, Enzo, 1983

Box 2 Folder 39 Manteo Puppets, 1983


Box 4 Folder 4 Marruzzo, Gabriel and Rosaria, 1974

Box 4 Folder 5 Maurino, Ferdinando, 1966-1973


Box 2 Folder 49 Melis, Laura, 1983


Box 4 Folder 3 Michelangelo exhibition and lectures, 1964

Box 4 Folder 47 Modern Art Museum, Rome, color slides, undated

(Workes by Burri, Guttuso, Manzu, Morandi, Scipione)

Box 4 Folder 6 Music, 1957-1961


Box 3 Folder 36 National United Italian Associations, Inc., 1937-1939

(Confederazione Nationale Italiana d'America)


Box 2 Folder 42 Operalogue, 1982


Box 3 Folder 4 Paper dress ball, 1967


Box 2 Folder 12 Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1976

Box 2 Folder 40 Pastorino-Pang Piano Duo, 1983

Box 2 Folder 16 Philip Mazzei symposium, 1976

Box 2 Folder 17 Pirandello's one-act plays, 1976


Box 3 Folder 18 Poetry Festival, 1953-1954

Box 3 Folder 9 Poetry Festival, 1962


Box 2 Folder 45 Pomeranz, Alberto, 1983

Box 2 Folder 25 Postwar Italy: A Reassessment (concert), 1989


Box 4 Folder 29 Printed materials, 1969-1970

Box 4 Folder 11 Q, 1961-1963

Box 4 Folder 15 R, 1959-1972

Box 4 Folder 7 Reader's Digest Foundation, 1970-1972

Box 4 Folder 8 Regni, Charlotte concert, 1972

Box 4 Folder 9 Renaissance Society Programs, 1955-1974

(Includes Seminar on the Renaissance)

Box 4 Folder 10 Replies to membership letter, 1967-1968

(Survey re: Casa's lectures, exhibits, music events and films)

Box 4 Folder 30 Requests for information, 1969-1970

Box 4 Folder 26 Requests for papers, 1969-1970

Box 4 Folder 12 Requests to perform at Casa, 1966-1972


Box 2 Folder 35 Rognoni, Virginio, 1982


Box 4 Folder 13 Room assignments, 1975-1976


Box 3 Folder 32 Rosso, Augusto, former Italian Ambassador to the U.S., 1963


Box 4 Folder 14 Rubino, Maestro - musical presentations, 1958-1972


Box 2 Folder 32 Ruffini, Gene, 1982


Box 3 Folder 33 Rugantino, 1964


Box 4 Folder 31 S, 1958-1974

Box 4 Folder 16 Salvini, Roberto, 1974


Box 2 Folder 43 Santelli, Francesco (music conductor), 1982

Box 2 Folder 28 Saponi, Claudio, 1982

Box 2 Folder 26 Sartori, Giovanni, Director of the Center for Italian Studies, 1983


Box 3 Folder 43 Scelba, Cipriana, 1973-1974

Box 3 Folder 51 Schab, Frederick, 1975

Box 3 Folder 50 Sciarpellini, Pietro, 1974-1975

Box 3 Folder 52 Scrittori alla Casa, 1973

Box 3 Folder 53 Security, 1969-1973

Seminar on Modern Italy

Box 3 Folder 13-16 1966-1970, 4 folders


Box 4 Folder 18-20 1970-1973, 3 folders


Box 3 Folder 54 1973


Box 10 Folder 1 Transcripts, 1969


Box 3 Folder 55 Serratore, Enzon, 1974

(European Coach and Travel Company, Inc.)

Box 3 Folder 31 Sestetto di Bolzano, 1966

Box 3 Folder 29-30 Sestetto Italiano concert, 1962, 2 folders


Box 4 Folder 1 Slide collection catalog, undated


Box 3 Folder 1 Smith, Patrizia (Scascitelli), 1976-1982

Box 3 Folder 17 Sogliuzzo, A. R. (Richard), 1973

Box 3 Folder 40 Soldati, Mario, 1973


Box 4 Folder 17 Sozzi, Ercole, 1958-1970


Box 3 Folder 48 Space reassignment, 1973

Box 3 Folder 47 Spectator, 1971-1973


Box 4 Folder 21 Sterling Manhattan Cable Television, 1971-1972


Box 3 Folder 45 Stevens, Denis W., 1974-1975


Box 4 Folder 22 Sticca, Sandro, 1974


Box 3 Folder 46 Stratta, Ettore, 1974

Box 3 Folder 44 Students for the Casa, 1972


Box 4 Folder 23 Sturzo, Don Luigi - bibliography, undated

Symposium on Modern Italy

Box 4 Folder 36 T, 1949-1974

Box 4 Folder 32 TABOR International Women's Center, Inc., 1958

Box 4 Folder 33 Tankersley, Robert T., 1961-1962


Box 3 Folder 12 Tarrow, Sidney seminar luncheon, undated

Box 3 Folder 49 Taviani, Paolo Emilio, 1975

Box 3 Folder 3 Teatro di Roma, 1981

(Puppet exhibition)


Box 2 Folder 37 Tedesco, Jo Ann, 1984

Box 2 Folder 38 Theatre Development Fund, 1982


Box 5 Folder 4 Theatrical Events, 1982-1984


Box 4 Folder 34 Tozzi, Piero, 1967-1970

Box 4 Folder 35 Treasures of Italy: Firenze, 1964

Box 4 Folder 37 U, 1959-1965

Box 4 Folder 46 Unidentified event recordings, 1974 November 14 and 16, 5 Reels

(Reel #1 Side I - Tuesday, November 14, 1978, 8:45 to 10:00; Side II - 10:20 to 11:53. Reel #2 Side I - 11:53 to 13:24; Side II - 14:12 to 15:44. Reel #3 Side I - 15:44 to 17:55; Side II - 17:55 to 18:02, Thursday, November 16, 1978, 9:30 to 10:59. Reel #4 Side I - 10:59 to 12:08; Side II - 14:05 to 16:15. Reel #5 Side I - 16:15 to 18:00; Side II - 18:00 to 18:40. )

Box 4 Folder 38 Venturi, Lionello, 1958

Box 4 Folder 39 Verdi Festival, Metropolitan Opera, 1972


Box 5 Folder 11 Veronesi, Giorgio, 1983


Box 4 Folder 44 W, 1963-1969

Box 4 Folder 40 Weiss, Edward and Busoni concerts, 1966-1972


Box 5 Folder 12 Western Wind, 1984


Box 4 Folder 41 White, Helen C., 1965

Box 4 Folder 42 Wlassics, Tibor, 1971-1972

Box 4 Folder 43 Wyatt, Stantley art show, 1971

Box 4 Folder 45 X, Y, Z, 1962