Verdi, Giuseppe PRINTED DIARY FOR THE YEAR 1861, CONTAINING VERDI'S AUTOGRAPH ENTRIES AND MEMORANDA, TITLED: Manuale per annotazioni coll'aggiunta di tariffe e ragguagli di monete...con Almanacco, Milan: Canadelli [c.1860] annotated by Verdi on some 46 pages, in brown ink and occasionally in pencil, including, on an inserted folding sheet, an autograph inventory of farm produce stored at St Agata on 1 January 1861, listing beans, oats, corn, straw, wine, wood and other items, together with regular entries until June 1861 by Verdi, recording letters sent ("Pietroburgo"), weekly expenditure on shopping, hotels and travel (mainly to Turin), payments from Ricordi, running-totals of accounts, annotations in pencil (the pencil attached to the covers), mostly also by Verdi c.230 printed pages in all, 12mo (c.12 x 7cm), arranged according to saints' days rather than the days of the week, contemporary brown cloth boards, original brown pencil in holder, 1861 This is the only example of a diary by Verdi that we have seen at auction. 1861 was a significant year in the composer's life; on 27 January, he was elected to represent Borgo S. Donnino in the first Italian Parliament in Turin. Most of the journeys there were to meet Cavour (who had persuaded him to stand) and to attend the parliament itself, including its opening on 14 February. His expenses there were considerable, as he had to maintain a hotel suite, servants and fine clothes to fulfil his new role. The final such entry is in early June: Cavour died on 6 June, and Verdi's effective participation began to decline after that. Among the list of letters, is one to St Petersburg, certainly related to the invitation to write La forza del destino in 1862. This diary has come to the current owner by direct descent from his grandfather, who married a Carrara Verdi at the start of the twentieth century.
Verdi, Giuseppe PRINTED DIARY FOR THE YEAR 1861, CONTAINING VERDI'S AUTOGRAPH ENTRIES AND MEMORANDA, TITLED: Manuale per annotazioni coll'aggiunta di tariffe e ragguagli di monete...con Almanacco, Milan: Canadelli [c.1860] annotated by Verdi on some 46 pages, in brown ink and occasionally in pencil, including, on an inserted folding sheet, an autograph inventory of farm produce stored at St Agata on 1 January 1861, listing beans, oats, corn, straw, wine, wood and other items, together with regular entries until June 1861 by Verdi, recording letters sent ("Pietroburgo"), weekly expenditure on shopping, hotels and travel (mainly to Turin), payments from Ricordi, running-totals of accounts, annotations in pencil (the pencil attached to the covers), mostly also by Verdi c.230 printed pages in all, 12mo (c.12 x 7cm), arranged according to saints' days rather than the days of the week, contemporary brown cloth boards, original brown pencil in holder, 1861 This is the only example of a diary by Verdi that we have seen at auction. 1861 was a significant year in the composer's life; on 27 January, he was elected to represent Borgo S. Donnino in the first Italian Parliament in Turin. Most of the journeys there were to meet Cavour (who had persuaded him to stand) and to attend the parliament itself, including its opening on 14 February. His expenses there were considerable, as he had to maintain a hotel suite, servants and fine clothes to fulfil his new role. The final such entry is in early June: Cavour died on 6 June, and Verdi's effective participation began to decline after that. Among the list of letters, is one to St Petersburg, certainly related to the invitation to write La forza del destino in 1862. This diary has come to the current owner by direct descent from his grandfather, who married a Carrara Verdi at the start of the twentieth century.
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