p.o. signed ffep. Color illustration by Nino Pagot on boards is clean and bright. Sedici tavole fuori testo [Sixteen plates outside text]. I count only 15 plates, perhaps there was a frontis or they are including the front board. Pages browned at edges and becoming brittle. Pages are becoming detached at front. Cloth spine with 3- and 4-inch tears. Chapters on Beethoven, Handel, Palestrina, Gluck, Bach, Monteverdi, Bellini, Rossini, Paganini, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Debussy, Puccini, and more. In Italian.