Florence-based antiquarian bookshop and auction house Gonnelli rounds up another auction jewel with music manuscripts and other effects to go on the block April 27.
Lots 33 - 60 of Auction 8 features letters and musical photograph/cards autographed by Busoni, Callas (photo above, from 300 euro) , Luciano Chailly, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Mascagni, Mercadante and Alessandro Rolla.
There's also autographed content, previously unpublished, of Tito Schipa's musical notes and a manuscript colletion from Carlo Guasco, Donizetti's and Verdi's go-to tenor.
Lastly there are music score abstracts and extracts from composers like Brahms, Chopin, Arcangelo Corelli, Niccolò Dothel, Donizetti, Haydn, Strauss, Rossini and Verdi.