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388 Pages Indexed. A book from the Elizabeth James Collection. These are the Broadway Diaries, Memoirs, and Letters. Lamartine once declared that the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was not more naive and amusing than were the Memoirs here translated. Without making for them any such exaggerated claim, it may confidently be said that the record of a life of such varied circumstance spent largely among the musical celebrities of the age, and at one point coming into contact with genius in the person of Mozart, contains much that is of permanent interest, while if some of the romantic adventures related by the author are without foundation in fact and dictated merely by vanity, they are not the less amusing. The apologetic purpose of the book, though not avowed, is evident from the circumstances in which it was written. The Memoirs were composed in America in the author's old age during a period of temporary success which had raised up for him the jealousy of many of his fellow-countrymen, political exiles from their native land, like him dependent on teaching for their livelihood. Contents in 14 Chapters: Earliest Years, Life at Venice, The Seminary at Treviso Venice Again, Gorizia and Dresden, Vienna and the Opera, Vienna and the Opera Continued, The Emperor Leopold at Trieste, Casanova Visited Holland King's Theatre London, Italy Revisited, London Again, Arriva in America New York Sunbury, Life At Sunbury Philadelphia, New York Again, and Garcia and the Opera in New York. List of Illustrations: Lorenzo Da Ponte, Emperor Joseph II, W. A. Mozart, The Graben Vienna, Brigida Banti, Interior of the King's Theatre Haymarket, Anna Morichelli, and Exterior of the Park Theatre New York. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 21235
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