The Lost Documents of Rudolph Valentino

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The Lost Documents of Rudolph Valentino: Floris, Evelyn Zumaya:9798256101664

For decades, the court records documenting the settlement of Rudolph Valentino’s estate have been missing from their rightful housing in the Los Angeles County Hall of Records. Author Evelyn Zumaya Floris’ research for her biography, Affairs Valentino would result in the recovery of a cache of copies of those records which were housed in the Hastings Law Library in San Francisco.

In an effort to share her previously inaccessible source material, Zumaya Floris published a companion guide of the most relevant documents referenced in Affairs Valentino. These included Valentino’s United Artists’ contract, his household ledgers, personal and professional accounting and much more.

This Sovereign Act Edition preserves the original 2013 volume while making these remarkable documents available to a new generation of readers, offering an unfiltered view into Rudolph Valentino’s personal, financial and professional world.  

The Rudolph Valentino Case Files

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This volume is the backbone of the Sovereign Act archive, restoring key documents and records central to the Valentino narrative. 

Affairs Valentino - Legacy Edition

Affairs Valentino: Legacy Edition preserves Evelyn Zumaya Floris' complete, unaltered 2011 text of the groundbreaking investigation which exposed the hidden history surrounding Rudolph Valentino. With new introductory essays and a sixty-four-page Addendum of archival letters, commentary, and restored documents, this commemorative volume stands as both a definitive research edition and a record of the book’s own survival.

This detailed Legacy Edition embodies the culmination of more than two decades of scholarship by Zumaya Floris and her late husband, Renato Floris.

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Reading Rudolph Valentino's Final World

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One hundred years after the death of Rudolph Valentino, the story of his final months remains obscured by legend and rumor.

Drawing upon decades of archival research by Renato Floris and Evelyn Zumaya Floris, Reading Rudolph Valentino's Final World presents ten illustrated folios examining the people, places, documents and events which surrounded the actor during the last year of his life.

From a contested will and family claims to financial realities, the making and release of The Son of the Sheik, to the myths which arose after Valentino's death, each folio combines rare images and documentary evidence, inviting readers to step inside Valentino's final world and examine the surviving record for themselves.

L'Affare Valentino - Sovereign Act Edition

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The True Rudolph Valentino by Baltasar Cue

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Fictionalized versions of Rudolph Valentino’s life circulated even before his death, shaped in part by studio publicity. In early 1926, Valentino set out to correct the record, collaborating with Spanish journalist Baltasar Fernández Cué on what was intended to be an authorized autobiography.

Cué was granted rare access to Valentino’s private world and became a close observer of the actor’s final months. Before departing for New York, Valentino entrusted him with personal letters and documents, expecting to return and complete the work. His sudden death left the project unfinished.

Determined to fulfill that intention, Cué completed The True Rudolph Valentino from his firsthand experiences and materials, producing a vivid account of the actor’s life, relationships and final days. Published in Spanish in 1927 in serialized form in the fan magazine Cine-Mundial, the work reflects both the immediacy of its moment and the mythology Valentino sought to dispel.

Presented here for the first time in English, and translated by Renato Floris, this edition restores a rare and revealing document to the historical record, accompanied by reproductions of the original Cine-Mundial illustrations.

Rudolph Valentino by Jeanne De Recqueville

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“Fifty-one years after his death and because the practice of massacring Valentino continues with impunity, some facts should be restored to their proper measure. The reader should be given an update based on more serious sources of information than those of gossip peddlers and the imaginative yet noticeably ill-intentioned.”

Jeanne DeRecqueville – Rudolph Valentino, 1978

“Jeanne DeRecqueville devoted her life to the worship and defense of Rudolph Valentino. She has been interviewed in recent months on numerous occasions to defend the memory of her hero as a recent film places him back in the news. Indeed, Rudolph Valentino has survived the test of time and his legacy, fifty years after his death, retains as much fascination and inspires as much devotion as during his lifetime.”

Cercle de la Librarie, Collection Cinema Theatre, 1978

“In translating this book, I carry Jeanne DeRecqueville’s torch forward to illuminate the path of knowledge for the sincere lovers of the great ‘Il Divo’, Rudolph Valentino.”

Renato Floris, Translator & Publisher