- Luzio, Alessandro. Carteggi verdiani.Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei,
1935–1947. 4v. ML410 .V4 A42.
Letters, documents, and facsimiles generally adding to previously published
material. Well indexed by name and title of composition. Full description in
Harwood (#1800), item 29.
1815.Verdi: The Man in His Letters.Ed. Franz Werfel and Paul Stefan. Trans.
Edward O. D. Downes. New York: L. B. Fischer, 1942. 469p. Reprint, New
York: Vienna House, 1973. ISBN 0-8443-0088-8. ML410 .V4 A385.
Originally Giuseppe Verdi Briefe (Berlin: Paul Zsolnay, 1926). A selection
from the Copialettereand the Carteggi veridanifor the period 1880–1901,
with brief comments. Expansive index of names, topics, and places.
1816.The Verdi-Boito Correspondence. Trans. William Weaver. Chicago: U. of
Chicago Press, 1994. lxiv, 321p. ISBN 0-226-85304-7. ML410 .V4 A4.
Originally Carteggio Verdi-Boito,ed. Mario Medici and Marcello Conati
(Parma: Istituto di Studi Verdiani, 1978). A scholarly edition, presenting 301
letters with extensive commentaries. Indexed by name, date, place, and com-
position title. Further information in Harwood (#1800), item 46. The English
translation conceals the curious fact that Boito invariably addresses Verdi in
the most formal style (Lei), while Verdi addresses him with the semiformal voi.
1817.Carteggio Verdi-Ricordi 1880–1881.Ed. Pierluigi Petrobelli, Marisa Di Gre-
gorio Casati, and Carlo Matteo Mossa. Parma: Istituto di Studi Verdiani, - xxiv, 347p. ISBN 88-85065-06-8. ML410 .V4 A4.
Presents 246 letters and telegrams, with commentaries. The main topic is the
revision of Simon Boccanegra,which premiered in 1881 at La Scala. Indexed
by writers, names, titles, places, and institutions. Further information in Har-
wood (#1800), item 80.
1818.Carteggio Verdi-Ricordi 1882–1885.Ed. Franca Cella, Madina Ricordi, and
Marisa Di Gregorio Casati. Parma: Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, 1994.
xxii, 540p. ISBN 88-85065-11-2. ML410 .V4 A4 1994b.
A collection of 346 documents, many published for the first time. Topics
include operas in progress (Otello and the Don Carlos revision) and the
recently produced revision of Simon Boccanegra. Indexed by writers, names,
titles, places, and institutions. A continuation volume, for 1886–1888, was
announced but has not been seen. - Jensen, Luke. Giuseppe Verdi and Giovanni Ricordi, with Notes on Francesco
Lucca: From “Oberto” to “La traviata.”New York: Garland, 1989. ix, 456p.
ISBN 0-8240-5616-7. ML410 .V4 J46.
Revision of the author’s dissertation, New York U., 1987. Includes letters, con-
tracts and documents (among them the libroni—internal ledgers of the Ricordi
firm), and full discussion of their context. The publisher Lucca was a competi-
tor of Ricordi’s, engaged by Verdi for three operas when he and Ricordi were
out of sorts. Among the interesting aspects of this study is information about
Verdi’s working habits. No index.
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