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Giuseppe Verdi. Stiffelio. Libretto [in three acts] by Francesco Maria Piave. Edited by Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell. (The Works of Giuseppe Verdi. Ser. 1: Operas, vol. 16.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Milan: Ricordi, c2003. Pref. (Philip Gossett) in Eng., Ital., p. vii-viii, xli-xlii; acknowledgments, p. ix, xliii; introd., p. xi-xxxix, xlv-lxxv; 6 facsims.; instruments of the orchestra, cast of characters, 1 p.; index of numbers, 1 p.; score, 412 p.; appendix, p. 413-23. Critical commentary (bound separately), viii, 164 p. Cloth. ISBN 0-226-85319-5 (University of Chicago Press); 88-7592-706-5 (Ricordi); ISMN M-041-38872-4 (score with commentary in English); ...

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