Vittorio PICA

Autograph letter signed by Guy de Maupassant to critic Vittorio Pica. 1¼ pages in black ink on two pages of a bifolium, with his manuscript heading "Cannes. Villa mon plaisir". Accompanying autograph envelope, with a lack due to opening.
Discrete sepia ink offsetting on the first leaf, from another Maupassant letter.
Charming letter from Maupassant with failing eyesight, announcing his journey to Italy, which he would make the following month in the company of painter Henri Gerveix and Henri Amix.
He addresses this letter and his short story Yvette to Neapolitan literary critic Vittorio Pica, who published n

Autograph letter signed by Guy de Maupassant, to the critic Vittorio Pica. 1 page ¼ in black ink on two pages of a bifolium with letterhead of his initials, "Sur le Bel-Ami / Antibes". Autograph envelope enclosed, bearing numerous stamps and postmarks.Discreet sepia ink offsetting on the first sheet, from another Maupassant letter.

 
Touching letter from Maupassant with failing eyesight, lamenting his inability to read the laudatory reviews by his correspondent Vittorio Pica. The latter published numerous studies in the Italian literary magazines Fantasio, Napoli Letteraria and La Tavola Rotonda on the writer's masterpi

Autograph letter signed by Guy de Maupassant, to the critic Vittorio Pica. 10 lines in black ink on one page of a bifolium.
Horizontal fold and very light shadow over 2mm on the upper edge of the sheet.
Charming note from Maupassant from Etretat, thanking Vittorio Pica for a laudatory review, published in the Italian literary magazine Fantasio. Pica would devote several studies to Maupassant's masterworks in this magazine, including Mademoiselle Fifi, Pot-Bouille, Une Vie, and Bel-Ami.

"Monsieur et cher Confrère,
Zola me transmet votre aimable article du Fantasio. Il m'a fait le plus grand plaisir ; et je vous prie de r