Edited sentence: Felix Klempka, Buffalo, NY.In my opinion, Nino Rotta was too good a musician not to have noticed that he was recycling a 100+ year old melody from one of his countrymen.The main love theme is lifted whole cloth from "Ernesto's Lament" which begins the second act of Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale"' including the orchestration with trumpet solo as used in the film