Pertanto sta negro !
Anthony Davis in conversation with Samuel R. Delany
Victor Hugo's son did the translations of Shakespeare into French which Boito used to work on his libretto for Verdi's Otello. In the introduction to his translation there's a long passage in which Hugo explains that of course Othello isn't really black, that Desdemona couldn't possibly have fallen in love with him if…
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