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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Shaffer's mistake: Antonio Salieri VENEZIANO! -- not from Lombardy!

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Shaffer has Salieri say:

"My parents were provincial subjects of the Austrian Empire, and perfectly happy to be so. A Lombardy merchant and his Lombardy wife. Their notion of place was the tiny town of Legnago – which I could not wait to leave."

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