Autograph letters signed from Giuseppe Verdi, Genova and S. Agata, to various people [manuscript], 1853-1865.
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Title
Autograph letters signed from Giuseppe Verdi, Genova and S. Agata, to various people [manuscript], 1853-1865.
Description
2 items.
Associated name
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901, correspondent.
Escudier, Léon, addressee.
Somma, Antonio, 1809-1864, addressee.
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Re Lear e Ballo in maschera.
Escudier, Léon, addressee.
Somma, Antonio, 1809-1864, addressee.
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Re Lear e Ballo in maschera.
Scope and content
In (1), Léon Escudier and dated March 11, 1865, Verdi discusses the staging of his opera Macbeth; in (2), to Antonio Somma and dated April 22, 1853, he refers to Shakespeare and King Lear.
Publications about material
"The pen's excellencie" : treasures from the manuscript collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library / compiled and edited by Heather Wolfe. Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2002, p. 203-206.
Provenance
(2) was removed from a copy of Re Lear e Ballo in Maschera, edit. by A. Pascolato, 1913, where it is published on p. [45]
Exhibited
Y.c.1447 (1) Exhibited: "The Pen's Excellencie" : Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library, curated by Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., February 6- June 8, 2002.
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Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Genoa.
Italy -- Sant'Agata di Villanova d'Arda.
Italy -- Sant'Agata di Villanova d'Arda.
Item Details
Call number
Y.c.1447 (1-2)
Folger accession
cs114, 1944