ALS in Italian, signed “G. Verdi,” one page both sides, 4.5 x 3.5, July 4, 1898. Letter to Giuseppe de Amicis, Verdi's friend and cousin of the important writer Edmondo De Amicis, written from the village of Sant'Agata. In part (translated): "I thank you for your kind ticket and, as you know, I will have to come to Genoa but not so soon. Here I hold back for a while now the tiredness, the heat that is now making itself felt…If you should leave Genoa, please let me know…The death of Carretta grieved me a lot. He was one of the most distinguished officers, but even more of a good man, frank, loyal, open, and he could be counted on. And that poor Caselli! Still so young!" He goes on to observe that while there was a time when he never felt he was aging, he was now feeling the infirmities of old age. In very fine condition. Verdi traditionally wintered in Genoa, where he rented an apartment at the Palazzo Sauli Pallavicino.
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