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This item refers to the Italian tenor Giovanni Matteo Mario's death on
December
11,1883. Whitman referred to Mario in
Specimen Days & Collect
, published in 1882-1883,
in the passages entitled "Plays and Operas
too"An earlier version of the essay appeared in
"The Old Bowery," and "Old Actors, Singers, Shows, etc., in New
York."
