"Rare AMQS, one page, removed from an autograph album, n.p., n.d. taken from an album. Boito has carefully and cleanly penned an eight bars on two staves musical quotation, untitled. Signed in black ink beneath the quote. - Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (Mefistofele) and librettist, was a friend of Verdi, for whom he wrote the libretti for Otello and Falstaff. Boito wrote the libretto for La Gioconda for Ponchielli, too, and, as an admirer of German opera, translated Wagner (Tristan und Isolde) and Weber (Der Freischütz) into Italian."