Bidspirit auction | BOITO ARRIGO: (1842-1918)

BOITO ARRIGO: (1842-1918) - BOITO ARRIGO: (1842-1918) Italian Composer, Poet and Novelist. A.L.S., ` Arrigo Boito ´, Milan, 8th December, n.y., to Sign. Levi, in Italian. Boito congratulates his correspondent´s work and pariases the beauty of it, stating ` Ho letto ora i vostri Miraggi , pagina a pagina, senza interruzione, come si legge una musica, e come une musica bella e profonda lascia nella mente di chi l´ha udita una folata di reminiscenze oscillanti... Quasi tutto il vostro libro e Arte vero e intenso. Siete Poeta nell´anima e la citazione di Goethe posta ad epigrafe delle vostre liriche puo essere citata in vostro elogio...´ (Translation: ” I have now read your Mirages , page after page, without interruption, as one reads a piece of music, and as a beautiful and profound music leaves in the mind of the one who has heard it a gust of oscillating reminiscences... Almost all of your book is true and intense Art. You are a Poet in your soul and the quotation from Goethe placed as an epigraph to your lyrics can be cited in your praise...”) Further and before concluding Boito encourages his correspondent to continue with that vision in his work, saying ` Continuate a meditar, a contemplare, a sognare, adornate le intime visioni con paroli e con armonible cadenze... L´Arte è il rimedio della Vita.´ (Translation: ” Continue to meditate, to contemplate, to dream, adorn your intimate visions with words and harmonious cadences... The Art is the remedy of Life.”) Overall minor age wear with fold professionally repaired and very small area of paper loss to the second page left corner. G