"CARUSO" MANOSCRITTO SORRENTO PALACE Lot n° 65

With 40 million copies sold, it is one of the most famous Italian songs in the world.Written in 1986 in Sorrenton at the "Excelsior" hotel, it draws its inspiration from the tenor Enrico Caruso, who stayed here many years earlier, in the very room that would see the symbol of the Bolognese singer-songwriter born. The song takes its cue from a story told by the hotel's restaurateur, who described Caruso's story when, shortly before his death, he moved the piano to the terrace of his room and began with his singing to bewitch the boatmen below, who approaching with their lampoons, created a glow similar, in Dalla's mind, to the lights of New York City. This text is probably a second or third draft of the single written on a slip of paper at the Palace Hotel in Sorrento, where the maestro often liked to linger during his moments at the Gulf. After departing from Sorrento, he probably stopped in the resort of Maratea at a friend's restaurant, then left the writing there. In 2006 he returned to the same restaurant and told the story, enthusiastically countersigned it.