The Letters of Casa Ricordi is an open project, relying on contributions from scholars and music lovers. If you wish to cooperate, send us your transcriptions via email at: letters@archivioricordi.com
After due check, they twill be published online under your name.
Thank you for your generous contribution!
Here below a few suggestions to start exploring the letters.

Suggested authors

Leopoldo Mugnone
Stefano Donaudy
Ildebrando Pizzetti
Francesco Florimo
Giorgio Federico Ghedini
Luigi Mancinelli
Franco Faccio
Filippo Marchetti

However, our digital collection offers more than 30,000 letters. You can access it here.

Editorial guidelines
• Create a Word or Open Office file.
• Use its shelfmark number as title: LLET014039; CLET001762; …
• Set in a standard font (Times New Roman, 12 pt. is preferred).
• Text should be left-justified, not fully justified. Only date, place and signature are often right-aligned.
• Respect paragraphing.
• Respect capitalization
• Respect original underlines and deletions
• Do not amend orthography or grammar. If a mistake of the author makes the text unclear or ambiguous, mark it with [sic].
• In case of uncertain reading, mark your guess between [ ].
• In case of impossible reading, mark the missing word with star keys between [ ]: [******]

Thanks to the valuable contribution of the users, the following authors have been fully transcribed:
Giuseppe Adami, Antonio Bazzini, Vincenzo Bellini, Teresa Bianchi Bazzini, Isaia Billé, Arrigo Boito, Giovanni Bottesini, Cleofonte Campanini, Alfredo Casella, Victor de Sabata, Andrea Della Corte, Antonio Fanna, Luigi Ferrari Trecate, Filippo Filippi, Giovacchino Forzano, Antonio Ghislanzoni, Giuseppe Giacosa, Umberto Giordano, Felix Godefroid, Claudio Guastalla, Luigi Illica, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Andrea Maffei, Clara Maffei, Gino Marinuzzi, Pietro Mascagni, Edoardo Mascheroni, Alberto Mazzucato, Saverio Mercadante, Francesco Molinari Pradelli, Giovanni Pacini, Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli, Francesco Maria Piave, Amilcare Ponchielli, Ettore Pozzoli, Giacomo Puccini, Arturo Rossato, Gioachino Rossini, Temistocle Solera, Teresa Stolz, Giuseppina Strepponi, Giuseppe Verdi, Maria Waldmann, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

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