Not Entirely Nice
Jerry Fodor, 2 November 2000
Puccini: His International Art
by Michele Girardi, translated by Laura Basini.
Chicago, 530 pp., £41, September 2000,0 226 29757 8 Show More
by Michele Girardi, translated by Laura Basini.
Chicago, 530 pp., £41, September 2000,
“... well-ordered sensibility, his operas pose a small but genuine critical conundrum. Pretty clearly, Michele Girardi’s book has it in mind to sort that out and set it to rights. It is judicious and scholarly and respectable to a fault. There are swarms of footnotes, which say things like: ‘Interestingly, Illica emphasised the crucial influence that the ... ”