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Book 1: The musician
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/"Ariosto, Orland. Fur./" Canto 1.7.
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0:00:00 Chapter I
0:23:17 Chapter II
0:34:52 Chapter III
0:47:05 Chapter IV
1:01:22 Chapter V
1:09:44 Chapter VI
1:21:13 Chapter VII
1:32:20 Chapter VIII
1:41:12 Chapter IX
1:55:30 Chapter X
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The images used are:
Chapter 1: A painting of the violinist Niccolò Paganini by Georg Friedrich Kersting. Gaetano Pisani is a fictional character, but Niccolò Paganini seems to have just about the right look to serve as his stand-in. Paganini dates from the early 19th century rather than the late, but close enough.
Chapter 2: Teatro San Carlo – View of the stage from Royal Box by Viva-Verdi, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed. in ).
Chapter 3: Naples, Piazza Vittoria and the Riviera di Chiaia
Chapter 4: /"The Poet/" by Giuseppe Bonito. It was painted in 1742, so a few decades too early for our purposes, but it was extremely difficult to find an image for this chapter. Intended to represent Count Cetoxa and his associates.
Chapter 5: /"Two old men arguing/" by Rembrandt (1628). In this case, Zanoni and his partner.
Chapter 6: /"A little supper, à la Parisienne; – or – a family of refreshing sans-culottes, after the fatigues of the day/" by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey, hand-colored etching, published September 20, 1792
Chapter 7: Théodore Géricault on his deathbed (1824) by Charles Emile Callande de Champmartin. Of course, the old man in this chapter didn't actually die, but he almost did, and his would-be assassin took him for dead, so…
Chapter 8: / “Conversation piece: Three men in 18th century costume /” (1890) by Carl Wilhelm Anton Seiler, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Chapter 9: /"Death of a musician/" (1859) by Octave Tassaert
Chapter 10: The Angel of Sorrow by William Wetmore Story, which actually comes from a cemetery in Rome for Protestants, so it's not the best fit for a Neapolitan Catholic, but I still feel like it This is an appropriate image to capture the mood of this story. chapter.
To be continued: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2664/2664-h/2664-h.htm#link2HCH0001
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