Autograph by Carlo Ragghianti

This is a composition, mounted under passepartout, plexiglass, and gilded frame (cm 40.5 x 2 x 54.5) of a manuscript by Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, accompanied by a beautiful b/w photographic portrait of the Italian art historian and critic, during his youth (cm 14 x 10.5).

The preciousness of this lot lies precisely in the uniqueness of the Autograph Letter Signed by C. L. Ragghianti to the Countess A.L. Pecci-Blunt.

Florence, October 22nd, 1946. One page, single-sided. In Italian. On letterhead paper "Istituto di Storia dell'Arte, sede in Pisa, Museo Nazionale, Lungarno Mediceo". Excellent condition.

A lovely thank-you letter written by the Italian art historian to the Countess Pecci Blunt, for the pleasant visit at her Royal Villa in Marlia and for the "sublim dinner" spent  together, conversing about art and history. 

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Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti (Lucca,1910 – Florence,1987)

The Italian art critic, historian, philosopher of art and politician, Carlo L. Ragghianti studied in Florence toghether with Eugenio Montale, and after in Pisa, as a pupil of Matteo Marangoni. His education was influenced by Benedetto Croce and by his theory of "pure visibility"; then he approached to the theories of Konrad Fiedler, Alois Riegl, Julius von Schlosser. He was remembered still today for his essays about cinema and entertainment industry as expressions of visual art. In 1935 he founded together with Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli the magazine Critica d'arte. Ragghianti was among the founders of the Action Party and he organized armed resistance in Tuscany.

Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci- Blunt (Rome, 1885 - Marlia, 1971)  

Best-known as "Mimì" Pecci-Blunt, the Italian noblewoman was an art collector, patron and nephew of Pope Leo XIII. Extremely volcanic, she was very active in the cultural field, opening numerous lounges, galleries and theaters. In 1919 she married Cecil Blumenthal, later changed to Blunt, a wealthy Jewish banker from New York, heir to an important collection of 19th-century French painting. His Parisian and Roman salons was frequented by artists and intellectuals of the caliber of Salvador Dalì, Paul Valery, Poulenc, Paul Claudel, and Aldo Palazzeschi and many more personalities!