Autograph letter signed to Signor Priore

by Giovanni Battista 179?-186? Placci

$100 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

1 page. Quarto. On Placci's elaborate letterhead. Dated 16 December 1847. In Italian, with translation. Placci, an Italian opera singer active in Bologna, requests that Signore Priore grant him the use of the theatre for performances during Carnival, beginning on the evening of 26 December, to include himself, his wife prima donna Giovannina Schuster , and their three children, who have had the honour of performing in several Italian theatres vaudeville works with modern

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