From the Book - First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
A father and his daughter
"He is a rude, uncivil scoundrel"
Another loss and a fiasco
"Little by little the opera was composed"
Queen Victoria is not amused
"The hour of liberation has sounded"
Verdi sets tongues wagging
The opera is "repugnant, immortal, obscene"
A rift in the Verdi family
"Without you, I am a body without a soul"
A soprano impresses Verdi
"I am an almost perfect Wagnerian"
"The all-powerful corruptor of Italian artistic taste"
"One button more, one button less".
