Tosca's Rome The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective

"This is a delightful book, not least for the wealth of oddity it discovers in the lives of its protagonists and their contemporaries. Nicassio offers a veritable Crufts' display of contenders for the original of Floria Tosca; unearths a Cavaradossi family in Garibaldi's home town of Nice; and, best of all, reveals that Puccini's grandfather Domenico was studying the Paisiello in Naples at the time of the action of Sardou's story, so that he could well have been the composer of the cantata which Tosca sings at the celebratory concert in the Palazzo Farnese."Nicassio, Susan VanDiver is the author of 'Tosca's Rome The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective', published 2002 under ISBN 9780226579726 and ISBN 0226579727.