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Updated: May 5, 2025

Then Merelli laid the other manuscript before Verdi. "Look, here is Solera's libretto; such a beautiful subject! Take it home and read it over." But Verdi refused. "No, no, I am in no humor to read librettos." "It won't hurt you to look at it," urged Merelli, and thrust it into the coat pocket of the reluctant composer.

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