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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Villa Verdi is
the house that composer Giuseppe Verdi owned from 1848 to the end of his
life in 1901. It is located in the village of Sant''Agata in the commune
of Villanova sull''Arda in the Italian province of Piacenza less than
two miles from the village of Le Roncole, where he was born in 1813, and
the town of Busseto where he lived from 1824. After buying the estate on
which he began to build his house in 1848 and, after various stops and
starts, it was completed in 1880. Originally, the house was occupied by
his parents, but, after the death of his mother, his father returned to
Busseto. Verdi and Giuseppina Strepponi, the opera singer with whom he
lived prior to their 1859 marriage, moved into the Villa in 1851.
