pugnatta

Updated: June 27, 2025

This would have been quite impossible had not Carlo Verdi had a good friend living at Busseto, a shoemaker, named Pugnatta. Pugnatta agreed to give Giuseppe board and lodging and send him to the best school in the town, all for a small sum of three pence a day.

Harriette Brower - The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians