?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
SCORE OF "LA RONDINE" WITH ALS PUCCINI, GIACOMO. Puccini, Adami, and Carignani. La rondine: commedia lirica in tre atti. With Autograph Letter Signed, mounted to front blank. The letter, "GiaPuccini," to lawyer Dante Lazzareschi, in Italian, in red ink, reporting that Tonio is well, remarking that Suor Angelica is not yet ready, promising to send La rondine, and hoping to meet in New York in November. 1 page, tall 8vo, personal stationery; lower half of verso mounted to front blank, moderate toning to edges, deep horizontal folds, minor smudging to text at lower left. The book, inscribed by Lazzareschi in 1918 to Leontina Cerini on upper portion of front blank above Puccini's letter. 4to, gilt-titled vellum, worn; toned at edges throughout. Milan: Casa Musicale Sonzogno, 1917; letter: Torre del Lago, 21 May 1918
". . . Suor Angelica is mine . . . in one act . . . . [It] has not been possible to have it ready for the current season--we'll have it for next year . . . . I divide my life between Viareggio and Torre--I am not in Milan for now. The operas are not yet edited for the public--But I will send you Rondine. . . . Let's hope to finish this war. . . ."
