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Like ice in children’s hands: on lost books
- ginko 8y agoI still hope someone finds some of Monteverdi's lost operas in some stuffy archive somewhere in Northern Italy. Monteverdi, who's generally considered to have composed the first proper opera wrote 10 operas of which only three (the very first and the two last ones) have survived.
- CNJ7654 8y agoReading these kinds of articles really makes one thankful that we live in an era where books can no longer be burned. In these times, there is no despot powerful enough to wipe out all traces of any public information