Alternative Versions of Letter 157
People in Letter 157
Arco, (Famiglia)Arco, Francesco EugenioArco, Johann Georg Anton FelixArco, Maria Josepha ViktoriaBettinelli, GaetanoBettinelli, GiulianoBettinelli, MariannaCarlotti, Alessandro FrancescoCosmi, Giovanni BattistaCristani (Cristiani) di Rallo, Giovanni AndreaEmilei (Emilej, Emili), Giovanni CarloEste, Francesco III MariaFirmian, Karl JosephGiusti del Giardino, FrancescoGummer, Joseph Anton KasparLocatelli, MichelangeloLodron, Max Septimus (Massimiliano Settimio)Lugiati (Famiglia)Maria Theresia von ÖsterreichMeissner, Joseph Dominik NikolausMozart, Leopold (Johann Georg)Mozart, Maria AnnaNot identifiedPizzini, Giovanni GiulioSartoretti, MargheritaSchrattenbach, Siegmund ChristophSpaur, Johann NepomukThurn und Taxis, (Johanna) Maria TheresiaThurn und Taxis, Michael IITroger, Leopold Ernst
Places in Letter 157
Bologna, ItalyBolzano, ItalyFlorence, ItalyInnsbruck, AustriaMantua, ItalyMantua, Italy: Teatro dell`Accademia FilarmonicaMilan, ItalyMilan, Italy: Convento degli Agostiniani di S.MarcoParme, ItalyRovereto, ItalySalzburg, AustriaTurin, ItalyVerona, Italy
Music by Mozart in Letter 157
157. LEOPOLD MOZART TO HIS WIFE IN SALZBURG
Milan, 26 January 1770
Herr Troger has passed on to me your letter of the 12th. We arrived in Milan at midday on the 23rd, and your letter arrived on the 24th and with it your first note 


I don`t doubt that in the meantime reports will have reached you in Salzb. both from Roveredo and from Verona and Mantova.


I`m enclosing another poem, this one by a lady by the name of Sigra. Sartoretti, Read More who entertained us in Mantua. Her servant came the next day and brought us an uncommonly beautiful bouquet of flowers on a beautiful plate, with red ribbons beneath it and 4 ducats entwined in the middle of the ribbons; on top was the poem, a copy of which I am appending.
I can assure you that everywhere I have found the most delightful people and that everywhere we have had our particular favourites who have remained with us until the very last moment of our departure and done everything in their power to make our stay agreeable. So it was, for example, with Count Spaur`s household in Insprugg, Baron Pizzini, Counts Lodron, Cristani, Cosmi etc in Roveredo and Count Carlo Emilij, Marchese Carlotti, Count Justi, the Luggiatti household and especially Herr Locatelli in Verona. Then in Mantua Count Arco`s household and especially a Sigr. Bettinelli who, together with his brother and his brother`s wife, was entirely at our service. The wife was really like a mother to Wolfgangl and we left with tears in our eyes. I`m also enclosing the newspaper from Mantua, Read More which we received only after we`d already arrived here in Milan . Among other things you`ll find in it the printed programme of the music performed at the concert, Read More but I should add that neither the concert in Mantua nor the one in Verona was given for money, for everyone is admitted free of charge. In Verona only the nobility can attend as it`s they who run it, but in Mantua it`s the nobility, the armed forces and the most prominent members of the community as it`s a foundation set up by Her Majesty the Empress. You`ll easily gather from this that we shan`t grow rich in Italy and that we`ll do well to recover our travelling expenses. These I`ve always recovered: and you can be assured that although there are only 2 of us, our travelling expenses are not small, as we`ve already spent about 70 ducats. But |: as I write this :| we`ve already been away from Salzb. for 6 weeks, and if you live à pasto

We each sleep on 4 good mattresses, and every night the bed is warmed, so that Wolfg. always goes to bed happy. We have our own monk, Brother Alphonso, to wait on us and are being very well looked after. How long we`ll remain here, I can`t say. His Excellency the Count has a cold but was very keen to give a concert in his house and invite the Duke of Modena,

As for the horse, you can sell it or raffle it or give it away, for all I care, I just want it out of His Grace`s stables. The old saddle etc. is in the stables, the court stabler must know where things are. If it can be sold with the new saddle and bridle, you may get a better price for it. You can also sell my carriage. It`s not getting any better: and we shan`t be going on any more long journeys. Sell it as best you can, it`s done good service.

Every good wish to all our friends at home and abroad. I am your old honest
L. Mzt
We kiss you both 1000 times
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Eisen, Cliff et al. In Mozart's Words, Letter 157 <http://letters.mozartways.com>. Version 1.0, published by HRI Online, 2011. ISBN 9780955787676.