Correspondence Bernhard Marr - Carlo Leone Curiel. Part II: 1921-1931

This is the second part of Bernhard Marr’ – Carlo Leone Curiel correspondence (first part in Casanoviana 1, 2018). Some number of letters was written by Carlo Leone Curiel after World War I and testify to the slow recovery of cultural relations between the old Austro-Hungarian countries and the new Europe of nations. In particular, the second part of this correspondence includes the beginnings of new editorial projects in view of the celebrations of the second centenary of Casanova’s birth (1925), culminating in the Sirène edition of the memoirs published from 1924 and, from the literary point of view, in Stefan Zweig’s book Adepts in Self-Portraiture. The correspondence between Curiel and Marr from 1924 to 1930 describes the attempt to restart the Corbaccio edition with a new apparatus criticus and notes by Curiel and Gugitz with the collaboration of Marr and its failure. At the same time, they testity the origins of the Corbaccio’s edition of Casanova’s correspondence edited by Curiel, Gugitz and Ravà.