Verdi: A Documentary Study
[London and New York]: Thames and Hudson, 1978. Hardcover. 12 by 9 inches; 309 by 227 mm. 256 pages. Second printing, 1978. Hardcover, bound in green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board, in a jacket with Giovanni Boldini's painting of Verdi on the front panel. Mild toning to page margins, but otherwise in fine condition, in a fine jacket. Jacket enclosed in a clear, archival-quality, removable protective cover. Item #585
First published in 1977. A thorough and attractive book made up of two parts: The first section consists of 318 plates, including 54 in color, showing people, places, documents and stage productions from the composer's life and surroundings; the second section gives excerpts from more than 500 contemporary texts, cross-referenced to the plates when appropriate. The editor, a preeminent translator of Italian into English, and winner of the National Book Award and two P.E.N. awards for his translations of works by Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, is also a leading opera critic, and was the Italian opera correspondent to the Financial Times and the International Herald Tribune when this book was published.
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