Handwriting works magic: it transports us back to defining moments
in history, creativity, and everyday life and connects us
intimately with the people who marked the page. For nearly half a
century, Brazilian author and publisher Pedro Correa do Lago has
been assembling one of the most comprehensive autograph collections
of our era, acquiring thousands of handwritten letters,
manuscripts, and musical compositions as well as inscribed
photographs, documents, and drawings. From an 1153 parchment signed
by four medieval popes to a 2006 thumbprint signature by physicist
Stephen Hawking, the items illustrated here span nearly nine
hundred years, and along the way bring us up close and personal
with writers, artists, composers, political figures, performers,
explorers, scientists, philosophers, and rebels whose actions and
creations have made them legends. Rather than focusing on a single
era or subject, Correa do Lago made the ambitious decision to seek
important autographs in eight broad areas of human endeavor-art,
history, literature, science, music, philosophy, exploration, and
entertainment. The 140 extraordinary selections gathered in this
book-displayed for the first time in a major exhibition at New
York's Morgan Library and Museum-include letters by Lucrezia
Borgia, Vincent van Gogh, and Emily Dickinson, annotated sketches
by Michelangelo, Jean Cocteau, and Charlie Chaplin, and manuscripts
by Giacomo Puccini, Jorge Luis Borges, and Marcel Proust.
Handwriting is one of the most visceral means by which we leave
tracks of our existence. At a time when so much of our
communication has become utterly immaterial, this collection
conveys the power of the pen to illuminate the energy, passion,
vulnerability, and imagination of humankind across the ages.
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