This small book collects and orders chronologically most of the notes written by Giuseppe Pellizza in Turin in September-October 1891, when he tried his hand in the competition for the national artistic pension. The notes belong to three different notebooks, one of which is preserved in Giuseppe Pellizza’s studio-museum in Volpedo. The transcriptions are by Pierluigi Pernigotti for the Volpedo notebook, and Virgilio Giacomo Bono and Aurora Scotti Tosini for the other two.