Boldly penned AMQS on a large sheet removed from the autograph album of the Contessa Anna Maria Malvezzi. Two measures in C Major, inscribed to Malvezzi and signed "G. Rossini" in Bologna, 2 November, 1842. The verso of the page with an 8-measure AMQS to Malvezzi dated Ferrara, 6 December, 1842, being a passage from a work by Mercadante penned and signed by the baritone Pietro Balzar who himself created several leading Mercadente roles. Strip of paper along left edge of the recto, else fine. 27 x 18 cm.