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Tuesday 11 November 2025 e Wednesday 12 November 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Autografo - Verdi, Giuseppe

Autograph score page, with dedication, 1858

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Splendid sheet music (La Traviata) with an elegant romantic gold border, featuring a lady, a musician, and some musical instruments. Measures 260 x 172 mm. Mounted on easily removable cardboard, within a dark wood frame. Nine staves with notes and text, with the dedication at the bottom "Naples 18 April 1858 To Mancinelli G Verdi". Musical bars: inc. Of that love, that love which is the soul of the universe... (Act I, scene III, Alfredo) . The dedication is to the Neapolitan painter Giuseppe Mancinelli (1813-1875), one of the greatest exponents of the historical-romantic genre.

Specialist Notes

In 1854, Giuseppe Mancinelli (1813-1875) was commissioned to paint a new stage curtain for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. The artist, a highly regarded court painter, created a monumental work that celebrates Italy's musical and artistic tradition. Mancinelli's depiction, titled "Homer and the Muses Among the Poets," is grounded in a revival of Italian classicism, particularly the restrained style of Raphael. Raphael's ideal of composed physicality, natural harmony, and compositional order was pursued in the 19th century by artists of various persuasions, both in Italy and Europe. Mancinelli revived the Raphael of the Stanze, without excluding its influences, within a personal Romantic vision that underpinned his entire pictorial production, whose ultimate goal was decidedly the pursuit of "visible beauty." During that period, he undoubtedly met Giuseppe Verdi and received this precious relic from him. Verdi's musical quotations are rare and sought-after on the international market, especially if they are from his most famous operas, as in this case.

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