“There are not many works about music that are of great significance and published in Italy. [...]. Among these, a place of honour must be reserved for I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800. The extreme level of precision, of attention to details and the huge amount of information included and processed in this work are astonishing [...] it is a unique research that fully justifies the selling price; moreover, it is an item that libraries cannot afford not to have [...]”
Armando Torno, Il Sole 24 Ore
Il Sole 24 Ore is the leading Italian business daily newspaper
Armando Torno is a renown Italian journalist and writer
“The over 25,000 records in the ‘Catalogo Sartori’ represent an essential starting point to investigate many aspects still poorly known of a musical genre - the Italian Opera - which dominated the European scene for over two centuries”
Paola Reverdini, Biblioteche Oggi
Biblioteche Oggi is an Italian monthly review of bibliography and biblioteconomy
“The ‘Catalogo Sartori’ is, therefore, a real guide which will contribute immensely to the understanding of the history and culture of the theatre in Italy up to the year 1800.
Moreover, it will increase the quantity and the quality of the available documentation on history and social culture. [...]
Claudio Sartori was Professor of Italian literature at the ‘Conservatorio di Milano’ and visiting professor in various American Universities”
Luigi di Fronzo, La Repubblica
La Repubblica is the leading Italian daily newspaper
Luigi di Fronzo is an orchestra conductor, music journalist and critic and Professor of History and Music at the ‘Conservatorio di Milano’
http://www.luigidifronzo.com/
“It is the most comprehensive catalogue ever published, the result of years of research in libraries and archives all over the world; a most valuable tool for scholars as well as a fascinating guide [...]”.
Rubens Tedeschi, L’Unità.
L’Unità is one the most read Italian daily newspaper
Rubens Tedeschi is a music critic
"I libretti italiani is wonderful in its own way. The broad sweep and the systematic
presentation of information support myriad uses. Although most readers will prefer
to consult it rather than page through it, some amazing profiles of durable plots arise from
the latter activity. I picked at random Artemisia, for which seventeen productions are
cited. [ ... ] This example has dozens, if not hundred, of parallels. [ ... ]".
Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Notes , Journal of the Music Library Association, Second Series, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Dec., 1994), pp. 575-578
Eleanor Selfridge-Field is Consulting Professor of Music and Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/898870
“[...] The catalogue of Italian librettos written by Sartori [...] changed the way to approach the study of Italian opera and oratorio of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, giving a clear and accurate perception of the striking vastness of the phenomen. [...] The ‘Catalogo Sartori’ is soon to become an indispensable working tool, also for historians of dance, theater, Italian literature, civic and cultural life of Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries [...]”
Lorenzo Bianconi, Il Giornale della Musica
Lorenzo Bianconi is a professor of musical dramaturgy at the University of Bologna, Italy
Armando Torno, Il Sole 24 Ore
Il Sole 24 Ore is the leading Italian business daily newspaper
Armando Torno is a renown Italian journalist and writer
“The over 25,000 records in the ‘Catalogo Sartori’ represent an essential starting point to investigate many aspects still poorly known of a musical genre - the Italian Opera - which dominated the European scene for over two centuries”
Paola Reverdini, Biblioteche Oggi
Biblioteche Oggi is an Italian monthly review of bibliography and biblioteconomy
“The ‘Catalogo Sartori’ is, therefore, a real guide which will contribute immensely to the understanding of the history and culture of the theatre in Italy up to the year 1800.
Moreover, it will increase the quantity and the quality of the available documentation on history and social culture. [...]
Claudio Sartori was Professor of Italian literature at the ‘Conservatorio di Milano’ and visiting professor in various American Universities”
Luigi di Fronzo, La Repubblica
La Repubblica is the leading Italian daily newspaper
Luigi di Fronzo is an orchestra conductor, music journalist and critic and Professor of History and Music at the ‘Conservatorio di Milano’
http://www.luigidifronzo.com/
“It is the most comprehensive catalogue ever published, the result of years of research in libraries and archives all over the world; a most valuable tool for scholars as well as a fascinating guide [...]”.
Rubens Tedeschi, L’Unità.
L’Unità is one the most read Italian daily newspaper
Rubens Tedeschi is a music critic
"I libretti italiani is wonderful in its own way. The broad sweep and the systematic
presentation of information support myriad uses. Although most readers will prefer
to consult it rather than page through it, some amazing profiles of durable plots arise from
the latter activity. I picked at random Artemisia, for which seventeen productions are
cited. [ ... ] This example has dozens, if not hundred, of parallels. [ ... ]".
Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Notes , Journal of the Music Library Association, Second Series, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Dec., 1994), pp. 575-578
Eleanor Selfridge-Field is Consulting Professor of Music and Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/898870
“[...] The catalogue of Italian librettos written by Sartori [...] changed the way to approach the study of Italian opera and oratorio of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, giving a clear and accurate perception of the striking vastness of the phenomen. [...] The ‘Catalogo Sartori’ is soon to become an indispensable working tool, also for historians of dance, theater, Italian literature, civic and cultural life of Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries [...]”
Lorenzo Bianconi, Il Giornale della Musica
Lorenzo Bianconi is a professor of musical dramaturgy at the University of Bologna, Italy