VERDI GIUSEPPE: (1813-1901) Italian opera composer. A.N., unsigned, to the recto of his personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card, featuring his printed name to the centre, Genoa, 1st January 1889, to Giuseppe Auteri De Cristofaro, in Italian. Verdi thanks Auteri De Cristofaro for their kind wishes which he heartily reciprocates. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Verdi to Auteri De Cristofaro in Catania. A few very light, minor traces of former mounting to the verso, otherwise VG

Giuseppe Auteri De Cristofaro was a young Sicilian composer with whom Verdi corresponded from 1885.