Overview
Compositions and correspondence of American professor of Romance Languages, Rudolph Altrocchi.
Dates
- Creation: 1909-1942
Language of Materials
Collection materials are primarily in English, but include some Italian and French.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
This collection is not housed at the Houghton Library but is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Extent
2 linear feet (4 boxes)Includes correspondence concerning Altrocchi's research interests and compositions concerning his work on his Ph.D. thesis on the Legend of Saint Alexius and his notes and drafts for other publications. Also includes a 1909 typescript of a play by Leonard Hatch, The heart of the Irishman.
Biographical / Historical
Rudolph Altrocchi (1882-1953) was born in Florence, Italy and his family emigrated to the United States when he was a child. He received an AB from Harvard College in 1908, and an AM in 1909 and PhD in 1914, both from Harvard University. He taught romance languages at Columbia University (1910-1911) and at the University of Pennsylvania (1911-1912), and was an instructor in French and Italian at Harvard (1912-1915). In 1916 he taught at the University of Chicago where he remained until 1927. In 1928 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley and remained there as a professor of Italian until 1952. He was the president of the Harvard Club of San Francisco from 1932-1938 and vice president of the Associated Harvard Clubs from 1934-1941, president from 1942-1947.
Altrocchi married poet and novelist Julia Cooley Altrocchi (1893-1972) in 1920. They had two sons, John Cooley Altrocchi and Paul Hemenway Altrocchi.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series:
- I. Correspondence with Rudolph Altrocchi
- II. Compositions and notes by Rudolph Altrocchi
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
58M-252. Gift of Mrs. Julia Cooley Altrocchi; received: 1957 October 16.
General note
This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. See access restrictions below for additional information.
Processing Information
Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt
Part of the MS Storage project, 2008-2009.
- Title
- Altrocchi, Rudolph, 1882-1953. Rudolph Altrocchi papers, 1909-1942: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02007
Repository Details
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