Si tratta di una raccolta di lettere, documenti, diari e altri scritti di vario genere, assemblata tra il 1875 e il 1908 dall’intellettuale, viaggiatore, collezionista e archeologo italiano. Passato in eredità alla figlia Adele dopo la di lui morte (1905), è stato da questa marginalmente implementato con documenti e pubblicazioni postumi al decesso del padre. La stessa ha poi donato l’intero archivio paterno al Museo Archeologico di Como, in accompagnamento alla celebre collezione di reperti archeologici avuta in eredità; ancora oggi, il Civico Museo “Paolo Giovio” conserva questo Fondo nei suoi archivi.
Il corpus di documenti è estremamente variegato e risulta composto di lettere (familiari e personali), scritti personali, scritti professionali, scritti scientifici e titoli e onorificenze, oltre a documenti di minor rilevanza scientifica come poesie occasionali. Di particolare interesse risultano sei taccuini inediti, redatti a matita in italiano dal Garovaglio stesso tra il 1886 e il 1887, nei quali è contenuto il diario del suo lungo viaggio tra il Mediterraneo e l’India. Nei taccuini vi sono decine di schizzi e disegni dal vero, tra cui molti paesaggi e vedute cittadine d’epoca, ma anche copie di reperti archeologici di ogni età e iscrizioni antiche.
L’archivio è associato alla già citata “Collezione Garovaglio”, composta di reperti archeologici provenienti dal Mediterraneo orientale e dal Vicino Oriente, e conservata dallo stesso Civico Museo di Como. 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