VERDI:

THE MAN REVEALED

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Copyright © 2018 by John Suchet

First Pegasus Books hardcover edition July 2018

Unless otherwise noted, translated extracts are taken from Verdi: A Biography by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz (1996). By permission of Pegasus Books

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ISBN: 978-1-68177-768-9

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