SALVINI TOMMASSO: (1829-1915) Italian Actor. A renowned stag...
SALVINI TOMMASSO: (1829-1915) Italian Actor. A renowned stage actor, his most famous role was Othello. A good autograph signed statement `Tommaso Salvini´, being a poem of four verses, one page, oblong 4to, on a page removed from an autograph album, Florence, 21st February 1896, in Italian. Salvini states `Come Farfalla che la luce attire - alla rovente fiamma abbrucia e spira - le osi dell´arte sacro fuoco, anch´io - m´incendio tutto per fatal desio! (''As a butterfly that light attracts - at the scorching flame burns and dies - me too, I burn in full for a fatal desire!'') Small age toning to the edges, with upper edge slightly uneven, otherwise G
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SALVINI TOMMASSO: (1829-1915) Italian Actor. A renowned stage actor, his most famous role was Othello. A good autograph signed statement `Tommaso Salvini´, being a poem of four verses, one page, oblong 4to, on a page removed from an autograph album, Florence, 21st February 1896, in Italian. Salvini states `Come Farfalla che la luce attire - alla rovente fiamma abbrucia e spira - le osi dell´arte sacro fuoco, anch´io - m´incendio tutto per fatal desio! (''As a butterfly that light attracts - at the scorching flame burns and dies - me too, I burn in full for a fatal desire!'') Small age toning to the edges, with upper edge slightly uneven, otherwise G
