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Arman Schwartz and Emanuele Senici, eds. Giacomo Puccini and his World (Princeton: Princeton University Press). viii+350 pp. £27.95.

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Arman Schwartz and Emanuele Senici, eds. Giacomo Puccini and his World (Princeton: Princeton University Press). viii+350 pp. £27.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2017

Ditlev Rindom
Ditlev Rindom*
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University of Cambridgedr423@cam.ac.uk
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , August 2019 , pp. 277 - 281
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References

1 Torrefranca, Fausto, Giacomo Puccini e l’opera internazionale (Turin: Bocca, 1912), 2 Google Scholar. A selection from Torrefranca’s book – from which the following quotations are taken – is included in the collection under review, 328–34.

2 On Puccini’s modernity, see for example Schwartz, Arman, Puccini’s Soundscapes: Realism and Modernity in Italian Opera (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2016)Google Scholar; on Puccini’s contemporary reception see Wilson, Alexandra, The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 For a further study arguing for the internationalism of late-nineteenth-century Italy, see Körner, Axel, The Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy: From Unification to Fascism (New York: Routledge, 2009)Google Scholar.

4 For an earlier study of Puccini’s internationalism, see Girardi, Michele, Puccini: His International Art, trans. Laura Basini (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)Google Scholar; more recently, see also Sheppard, W. Anthony, ‘Puccini and the Music Boxes’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association 140 (2015): 41–92 Google Scholar.