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==Further reading==
*Chusid, Martin, (Ed.) (1997), ''Verdi's Middle Period, 1849 to 1859'', Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.  {{ISBN|0-226-10658-6}}  {{ISBN|0-226-10659-4}}
*De Van, Gilles (trans. Gilda Roberts) (1998), ''Verdi's Theater: Creating Drama Through Music''. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press.  {{ISBN|0-226-14369-4}} (hardback), {{ISBN|0-226-14370-8}}
*Martin, George, '' Verdi: His Music, Life and Times'' (1983),  New York: Dodd, Mead and Company.  {{ISBN|0-396-08196-7}} 
*Osborne, Charles (1994), ''The Complete Operas of Verdi'', New York, Da Capo Press, {{ISBN|0-306-80072-1}}.
*[[Danièle Pistone|Pistone, Danièle]] (1995), ''Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera: From Rossini to Puccini'',  Portland, OR: Amadeus Press.  {{ISBN|0-931340-82-9}}
*[[Francis Toye|Toye, Francis]] (1931), ''Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works'', New York: Knopf
*Walker, Frank, ''The Man Verdi'' (1982), New York: Knopf, 1962, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  {{ISBN|0-226-87132-0}}
*[[John Warrack|Warrack, John]] and West, Ewan, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Opera'' New York: OUP: 1992 {{ISBN|0-19-869164-5}}