Book/Printed Material Postcard from Giacomo Puccini. Lettere Autografe di Giacomo Puccini
About this Item
Title
- Postcard from Giacomo Puccini.
Other Title
- Lettere Autografe di Giacomo Puccini
Summary
- The document presented here is a postcard sent by Giacomo Puccini (1858--1924) to his brother-in-law Giuseppe Razzi, Via Porta Santa Maria 14, Florence, announcing the impending arrival of the composer in Florence. The date of the postcard (September 7, 1904) and the place from which it was mailed (Montecatini) can be ascertained from the postmark in ink on the back of the card. The front of the card shows a promotional view of the hotel and restaurant L'Appennino in Montecatini, where Puccini presumably was staying. The postcard is from the Fondo Bonturi-Razzi in the State Library of Lucca, which consists of more than 500 letters, postcards, photographs and other items relating to the life and work of Puccini. The collection was acquired by the State Library of Lucca in 2006 from the heirs of Giuseppe Razzi and his wife Adelaide (Ida) Bonturi, the sister of Puccini's wife Elvira Bonturi Puccini (1860--1930). Puccini was born in Lucca into a family of musicians that for two centuries had provided the musical directors of the Cathedral of San Martino in Lucca. He served for a time as organist for the cathedral before studying composition in Milan. In 1891 he moved to the small town Torre del Lago near the Tyrrhenian Sea. There he wrote his most famous operas, including La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), and Madama Butterfly (1904). Later bursts of creativity resulted in the three operas of Il Trittico (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi), which premiered in 1918, and Turandot, which premiered in 1926, after the composer's death.
Names
- Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924 Author.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1904-09-04.
Headings
- - Italy--Tuscany--Florence
- - Italy--Tuscany--Montecatini
- - 1904-09-04
- - Composers
- - Correspondence
- - Postcards
- - Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 1 postcard ; 90 x 140 millimeters.
- - Original resource at: State Library of Lucca.
- - Content in Italian.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021668246
Online Format
- compressed data
- image