40.C.1
US-CA
Harvard University Libraries, Cambridge, Massachusetts
6 pages, 2° (4 pages of music) with 12 staves.
Music and lyrics in a copyist’s hand, with some additional expression marks in another handwriting (perhaps Puccini’s). Title: “Storiella d’amore — Noi leggevamo insieme..... / (Parole di A. Ghislanzoni)”. Tempo indication: “Andantino Mosso”. At the end of the music, Puccini signed and dated the manuscript: “Giacomo Puccini / 8.6.83 / Milano”. On the fifth page is the autograph dedication: “Alla Gentile signorina / Emilia Sanpietro / Giacomo Puccini”; below, in another handwriting: “Contessa / Emilia Sanpietro / Ved. Caraffa dono / all’Avv. Giovanni Battista Careri / Siena / Il 18 Dicembre 1903”. On the sixth page, the copyist has written the text of the poem in six strophes, headed: “Noi leggevamo insieme”.
40.C.2
Location:
Missing, last in Gonnelli Libreria Antiquaria's auction of 8 April 2016, no. 866.
Auction Date:
08/04/2016
8 pages, 4° (30 x 22.5 cm), 5 pages of music with 12 staves.
At the end of the music, Puccini signed and dated the manuscript: "Giacomo Puccini / Milano Giugno 1883".