Giuseppe Verdi
One autograph note, an inscribed visiting card and two autograph envelopes
1) Autograph note signed ("GVerdi")
referring to the delivery of a set of china and glassware to him at the [Hotel] Dogana [Turin], which Verdi asks to be forwarded to Borgo San Donnino
...Domandare se è arrivato un servizio da tavola in porcellana con bicchieri etc. diretto a Maestro Verdi in Dogana...
1 page, on the lower half of an 8vo leaf, on the verso an autograph letter to Sig. Rodriguez by Giulio Ricordi (Milan, 22 March, presenting him with the Verdi autograph requested by Marchesa Incontri), [probably Turin], no date
2) Inscribed visiting card and two autograph envelopes, addressed to Giuseppe Auteri De Cristoforo
the visiting card (with printed name Giuseppe Verdi), c.5.4 x 9cm, inscribed "A Giuseppe Auteri de Cris[toforo]...i miei affettuosi saluti ed i miei sentiti ringraziamenti [...my affectionate greetings and heartfelt thanks]", no place or date; with two envelopes addressed to Auteri in Catania, one postmarked Genoa, 20 March 1890
Giuseppe Auteri De Cristoforo was a youthful Sicilian composer with whom Verdi had begun to correspond in 1885.
LITERATURE:Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Verdi. A Biography (1993), p.701
Giuseppe Verdi
One autograph note, an inscribed visiting card and two autograph envelopes
1) Autograph note signed ("GVerdi")
referring to the delivery of a set of china and glassware to him at the [Hotel] Dogana [Turin], which Verdi asks to be forwarded to Borgo San Donnino
...Domandare se è arrivato un servizio da tavola in porcellana con bicchieri etc. diretto a Maestro Verdi in Dogana...
1 page, on the lower half of an 8vo leaf, on the verso an autograph letter to Sig. Rodriguez by Giulio Ricordi (Milan, 22 March, presenting him with the Verdi autograph requested by Marchesa Incontri), [probably Turin], no date
2) Inscribed visiting card and two autograph envelopes, addressed to Giuseppe Auteri De Cristoforo
the visiting card (with printed name Giuseppe Verdi), c.5.4 x 9cm, inscribed "A Giuseppe Auteri de Cris[toforo]...i miei affettuosi saluti ed i miei sentiti ringraziamenti [...my affectionate greetings and heartfelt thanks]", no place or date; with two envelopes addressed to Auteri in Catania, one postmarked Genoa, 20 March 1890
Giuseppe Auteri De Cristoforo was a youthful Sicilian composer with whom Verdi had begun to correspond in 1885.
LITERATURE:Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Verdi. A Biography (1993), p.701
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