VERDI, Giuseppe (1813-1901). Three autograph letters signed to Giovanni Maloberti, Cremona, 27 April 1868, [Busseto, 6 May 1873], St. Agata, 7 July 1875, concerning Verdi's personal arrangements, instructing Maloberti to recruit coachmen, horses and a cook, but not to send him pictures or talk to him about furniture, 3 pages in all, octavo, 1 autograph envelope Verdi seems to have used Maloberti, who lived in Piacenza and was probably secretary to the Philharmonic Society there, as a general factotum. The letters to Maloberti are written in an informal manner and give instructions in Verdi's characteristically forthright way. The third letter shows where Verdi's heart lay: Non parlano ne di quadri ne di mobili...Io avrei bisogno d'altra cosa-più materiale, se vuoi, ma più necessaria. Ho bisogno di un Cuoco; ma lo vorrei onesta, e capace, molto capace. The letters are published in George Martin Aspects of Verdi , Ransom Books, 1989, pp.242-3 (3)
VERDI, Giuseppe (1813-1901). Three autograph letters signed to Giovanni Maloberti, Cremona, 27 April 1868, [Busseto, 6 May 1873], St. Agata, 7 July 1875, concerning Verdi's personal arrangements, instructing Maloberti to recruit coachmen, horses and a cook, but not to send him pictures or talk to him about furniture, 3 pages in all, octavo, 1 autograph envelope Verdi seems to have used Maloberti, who lived in Piacenza and was probably secretary to the Philharmonic Society there, as a general factotum. The letters to Maloberti are written in an informal manner and give instructions in Verdi's characteristically forthright way. The third letter shows where Verdi's heart lay: Non parlano ne di quadri ne di mobili...Io avrei bisogno d'altra cosa-più materiale, se vuoi, ma più necessaria. Ho bisogno di un Cuoco; ma lo vorrei onesta, e capace, molto capace. The letters are published in George Martin Aspects of Verdi , Ransom Books, 1989, pp.242-3 (3)
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