Fine Autograph Letters and Manuscripts from a Distinguished Private Collection: Part II | Music, Americana, English and Continental Literature

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Lot 199
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PUCCINI, GIACOMO. OBSCENE AUTOGRAPH POEM, SIGNED, DEDICATED TO HIS FRIENDS FROM LUCCA, AND MARKED ON VERSO

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  • Obscene autograph poem entitled “Cacca di Lucca”, signed (“Giacomo Puccini”), dedicated to his friends from Lucca and marked on verso (“da affiggere in vetrina”, [“to be displayed in the window”])
a poem of eight lines beginning: Cacca di Lucca è sempre senza pecca Anche se è fatta in fretta da Baldracca… 2 pages, oblong 8vo, creased at folds, “Per auguri ‘99”

Catalogue Note

Lucca was Puccini’s home town: he was born there on 22 October 1858. Similar poems by Puccini survive (for example, the sale in these rooms, London, 6 May 1988, lot 451). It was part of his boisterous personality, not unlike the playful bantering students in Acts I and 4 of La Bohème.