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Also on display is his famous Italian operetta. "II Pesceballo", which was written in 1862 and which has a very interesting history. It is based upon the familiar college song of former times, "The Lay of One Fishball." His purpose in writing it was to have it sung as a public entertainment, the proceeds to be used for helping the loyalists of eastern Tennessee who had been impoverished by the ravages of the Civil War. Professor Child submitted his Italian verses to James Russell Lowell '38 for revision. Lowell at once "dashed off" an English version, and the thing...
...third edition of Child's "II Pesceballo" that is on exhibition. It is issued on a pale green printed cover, bearing the title and imprint "Cambridge Printed at the Riverside Press, 1802." The first and second editions were issued as a stitched pamphlet, without a cover, and the first edition contains several misprints...
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