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PUCCINI, GIACOMO (1858-1924). Photograph postcard inscribed and signed ("Giacomo Puccini"), by Rotationsdruck, Oest. Photogr. Gesellschaft Wien III, n.d. [circa 1907]. 138 x 88 mm. (5 7/16 x 3½ in.), some oxidation at edges (not affecting inscription). A half-length seated portrait of the operatic composer, inscribed vertically across the right side of the image: "To Miss Violet Leverson from Giacomo Puccini Torre del Lago."
"His heartrending, lushly romantic tragic operas (including Madame Butterfly and La Bohème) live up to the ideal expressed by one of his heroes: 'He who has lived for love, has died for love'"--W.M.
"His heartrending, lushly romantic tragic operas (including Madame Butterfly and La Bohème) live up to the ideal expressed by one of his heroes: 'He who has lived for love, has died for love'"--W.M.