The historian in his letters. Unpublished epistolary and history writing of Americo Tonda (1928-1983)

This work presents the most recent results of an investigation in progress on the unpublished epistolary archive of the priest historian Americo Tonda (1916-1984). Its objectives consist of examining the epistolary field as a laboratory of ideas during the preparation of his academic production, reestablishing the mechanisms of circulation of the historical work and the formation of circles of academic cooperation. The discussion frame of the work rests on the recent modulations of the notions of archive and archives of itself; and it problematizes the relations between private writings (letters, autobiographies, intimate diaries) and public writings (historical production). Offers, based on a first cartography of the epistolary collection, an overview of his main correspondents, during his practice of religious history.