Publisher's Synopsis
This critical edition, based on Verdi's autograph score and autograph corrections in the first manuscript copy, offers the full score-including powerful passages later excised by Roman censors and appendices containing sketches, fragments, rejected passages, and a substitute cabaletta for Jacopo's cavatina. With an introduction and detailed critical commentary, this edition provides performers, conductors, students, and scholars with a superior version of the colorful drama.