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- ↑ Franco Sciannameo - Nino Rota's The Godfather Trilogy: A Film Score Guide 2010 155 1461664241 ... the 1959 one-act opera by Riccardo Bacchelli and Nino Rota entitled La Notte di un nevrastenico (A Neurasthenic Man's Night)
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