Print version: Smart, Mary Ann. Waiting for Verdi : Italian opera and political opinion, 1815-1848. Oakland, California : University of California Press, c2018 253 pages ISBN 9780520276253
Includes bibliographical references and index
Risorgimento fantasies -- Accidental affinities: Gioachino Rossini and Salvatore Vigan? -- Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, and the limits of allegory -- Reading Mazzini’s Filosofia della musica with Byron and Donizetti -- Parlor games -- Progress, piety, and plagiarism: Verdi’s I lombardi at La Scala -- Conclusion.