(Florence, 1904 – Rome, 1972), writer and cultural organizer, founded “Solaria” in 1926, a “monthly magazine of art and ideas on art” that immediately established itself on the Italian cultural scene for its openness to European literary voices (Proust, Joyce, Gide, Valèry), its foresight towards emerging authors destined for a great future (Gadda, Vittorini, Quarantotti Gambini, Bonsanti, Loria), and the critical reevaluation of authors such as Tozzi and Saba. In the pages of the magazine and in the editions that bear its name, Carocci published his first literary works, “Narcisso” (1926) and “Il paradiso perduto” (1929). In 1936, "Solaria" concluded its run, and Carocci, with Gino Ca'Zorzi, founded "La riforma letteraria," which, however, was short-lived, concluding in July 1938. In 1941, with Gino Ramat, Carocci founded a new periodical, "Argomenti," with a distinctly anti-fascist focus, a factor that would ultimately end it after only nine issues. In 1942, he moved to Rome, where his opposition to fascism became active resistance through his contribution to the Action Party's organ, "Italia libera." After the liberation, Carocci considered a new periodical, a "magazine of ideas" and literature, which was launched in 1953, with the contribution of Moravia. Its title, "Nuovi argomenti," already presented itself as an ideal continuation of its predecessor. He became actively involved in politics and was elected to parliament in 1963. Struck by a serious illness, he spent the last years of his life in complete immobility. In 1969, after a publishing saga that lasted over thirty years, his only novel, "A Ball from the Angrisoni," was published amid general indifference.
The Alberto Carocci Fund is divided into the following sections: Correspondence, which constitutes almost all of the material in the collection, which includes approximately 5.000 pieces, including letters, postcards, tickets, telegrams, sent to Carocci by prominent figures of twentieth-century Italian culture such as Bacchelli, Baldini, Bemporad, Benco, Bompiani, Bonsanti, Borgese, Bottai, Calamandrei, Colacicchi, Comisso, Contini, De Benedetti, Einaudi, Evola, Ferrata, Ferrero, Franchi, Gadda, Grande, Gromo, Guarnieri, Lanza, Loria, Montale, Moravia, Morovich, Noventa (Gino Ca'Zorzi), Pavese, Pavolini, Prezzolini, Quarantotto Gambini, Raimondi, Saba, Silipo, Solmi, Stuparich, Tecchi, Terracini, to name just a few; in this section you can also find the drafts, mostly typewritten, that Carocci diligently preserved and which allow the reconstruction of entire correspondence such as, for example, that with De Benedetti, Einaudi, Ferrara, Ferrero, Gadda, Morovich, Noventa, Tecchi, Pavese, Tecchi, Terracini; Manuscripts, which preserves projects and scattered pages attributable to Carocci's literary production and the unpublished typescript “Sergio Donati”; Various, which contained the administrative material relating to the management of the magazines founded by Carocci, mostly relating to “Solaria” and that relating to his profession as a lawyer; Journals, with the 1926-1933 issues of “Solaria” bound in eight volumes.
