ID 870750
Lot 92 | PUCCINI, Giacomo (1858-1924)
Valeur estimée
£ 1 800 – 2 500
Autograph letter signed ('Giacomo') to Sybil Seligman, Torre del Lago, 16 June 1909.
In Italian. 7 pages, 192 x 144mm, on bifolia.
A despondent letter on the eve of his wife's trial for driving their servant, Doria Manfredi, to suicide. 'It is raining and I sit sadly with The Girl [i.e. La fanciulla del West] silent before me ... How overpoweringly gloomy it all is! Elvira's lawyers are trying to ruin her and myself by giving us conflicting advice ... Elvira is just the same. Nothing has changed ... she ordered me to go back home with her before the trial, and I repeated: afterwards, but not under these circumstances. So it is total war ... The trial, which it seems will have serious consequences for Elvira, is on 6 July ... Here I have tried everything, including talking to Doria's brother, but he is inflexible; he wants the trial to happen, and if it does not he has sworn to kill Elvira ... Doria said before she died that they should avenge her with her mistress but that they should not harm her master .... Torre is so dreadfully gloomy!'.
In 1908 Puccini's wife Elvira had begun to nurture unfounded suspicions that their servant, Doria Manfredi, was having an affair with Puccini. After a campaign of persecution and her dismissal from the household, Doria killed herself, and Elvira was prosecuted for slander: the trial concluded with a sentence of five months in prison, although the sentence was suspended after a payment by Puccini to Doria's family.
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| Lieu d'origine: | Italie, Europe |
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| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Lettres, documents et manuscrits |
| Lieu d'origine: | Italie, Europe |
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| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Lettres, documents et manuscrits |
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| Numéro de lot | 92 |
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| Date de l'enchère | 14.12.2022 |
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| Date de l'enchère | 14.12.2022 |
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| Numéro de lot | 92 |
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| Date de l'enchère | 14.12.2022 |
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| Date de l'enchère | 14.12.2022 |
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| Date de l'enchère | 14.12.2022 |
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| Date de l'enchère | 14.12.2022 |
