L’Amleto de A. Boito: con lettere inedite di A. Boito

One of the more important historical documents about Amleto has been a book called L’Amleto de A. Boito: con lettere inedite di A. Boito (A. Boito’s Hamlet: with unpublished letters of A. Boito). Published in the 1920s by the Fascist musicologist Rafaello De Rensis, whose other titles include the laughable Mussolini Musicista (Mussolini the Musician), its chief appeal is the reproduction of several photos and images related to the original La Scala production in 1871.  Click on the images to view them in a larger size.