Volume 50, Number 17 · November 6, 2003
In Love with Verdi
By Rosemary Dinnage
BOOKS CONSULTED FOR THIS ARTICLE
Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism
by David R.B. Kimbell
Cambridge University Press, 703 pp. (1981; out of print)
The Man Verdi
by Frank Walker
London: Dent, 526 pp.(1962; out of print)
Verdi: A Biography
by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Oxford University Press, 941 pp.(1993; out of print)
I had always wanted to see Sant'Agata, Giuseppe Verdi's house some miles from his home town of Busseto in the Po Valley. He loved it so much, loved it like the peasant he claimed he always was, the sowing and reaping, the grapes for his own wine, the building and extending, the buying of another field, and then another.
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