Le Roncole (today known as Roncole Verdi) is a village in the

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Busseto Busseto ( Bussetano: ; Parmigiano: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Parma, in Emilia-Romagna in Northern Italy with about inhabitants. Its history is quite well documented back to the 10th century, and for almost five hundred years it was the ...

. It is located 140 km southeast of

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Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi ( ; ; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi, his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the province of Parma ...

. He retained a residence in the area almost his entire life, and wrote to Count Opprandino Arrivabene in 1863 from Paris where it had been rumoured that he was intending to live in France: "I was, am and always will be a peasant from Roncole." The house has been a national monument since 1901.Mordacci 2001 The composer's birthplace, the "Casa Natale del Maestro", can be visited, as can the organ used by the young Verdi in the church of Santuario della Madonna dei Prati a few kilometers away.

References

Notes Sources * Associazione Amici di Verdi (ed.), ''Con Verdi nella sua terra'', Busetto, 1997 * Mordacci, Alessandra (2001), (trans. Studio Dott. Annita Brindani), ''An Itinerary of History and Art in the Places of Verdi'', Busseto: Busseto Tourist Office * Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane (1993), ''Verdi: A Biography'', London & New York: Oxford University Press.

External links

Busseto Tourist Office website
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