Seven Verdi Librettos
Subtitle: With the Original Italian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: October 1977
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9780393008524
First sentence: After the triumph of Nabucco (1842) and I Lombardi (1843) at La Scala in Milan, Verdi was invited to write for the great Venetian theater La Fenice, where in 1844 he had yet another success with Ernani.