PIRANDELLO LUIGI: (1867-1936) Lot n° 1402

PIRANDELLO LUIGI: (1867-1936) Italian Dramatist & Novelist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1934. A scarce A.L.S., ` Luigi Pirandello´, two pages, written to first and third page, 8vo, ` Da casa´ ("from home"), 5th September 1897, to Ugo Ojetti, in Italian. Pirandello explains in detail his frustrating visit attempt to his correspondent´, stating in part ` Caro Ugo, oggi sono andato su cerca del tuo indirizzo; so che abiti in via Bocca di Leone; non so il numero. Sono andato al Ministro della P.J- per farmelo dire, dal Palinarini: non l´ho trovato. Ho trovato il Flores, che e piu ignorante di me (nel senzo che anche lui ignora il numero della tua casa)... Mando peró questa mia lettera a farte visita in vece mia...´ (Translation: " Dear Ugo, today I went to search for your address; I know you live in via Bocca di Leone; I don't know the number. I went to the Minister of P.J to have Palinarini tell me: I didn't find him. I found Flores, who is more ignorant than me (in the sense that he also doesn't know your house number)... However, I am sending this letter of mine to visit you on my behalf...") VG Ugo Ojetti (1871-1946) Italian Journalist, art Critic and Author. He wrote prolifically on a wide range of topics, including short stories and at least seven novels. Widely admired for his mastery of language. Some of Ojetti’s output was published pseudonymously. His most frequently employed pseudonym, notably during the first decade of the twentieth century, was “Conte Ottavio” ("Count Octavian")