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Download or read book Encounters with Verdi written by Marcello Conati and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of reminiscences, interviews, memoirs, and essays by a wide-ranging group of people--journalists, musicians, impresarios, or chance acquaintances--who met the reclusive and secretive composer at various moments during his long life. Each entry has a relevant place within the chronology of Verdi's life, and every reference to an unfamiliar event or name in the text is explained in the copious footnotes.