Verdi / Julian Budden.

Pt. I. The life. Early life at Busseto ; Success and failure in Milan ; The journeyman ; Florence, London and Paris ; Return to Busseto ; Viva V.E.R.D.I. ; The new order ; The dark decade ; Indian summer ; The last years ; Verdi as man and artist
Pt. II. The music. The background ; From Oberto to Emani. Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, Un giorno di regno, Nabucco, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Emani ; The prison years. I due Foscari, Giovanna d'Arco, Alzira, Attila, Macbeth, I masnadieri, Jérusalem, Il corsaro, La battaglia di Legnano, Luisa Miller ; The high noon. Stiffelio, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata ; Towards grand opera. Les vêpres siciliennes, Simon Boccanegra, Aroldo, Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, Don Carlos, Aida ; The final masterpieces. Otello, Falstaff ; Miscellaneous operatic compositions ; Chamber compositions ; Choral and religious works
Appendices. Calendar ; List of works ; Personalia ; Select bibliography ; Glossary of nineteenth-century operatic terms.