#i cannot believe my 5 total weeks of library science/musicology grad school are actually proving useful to someone

[supercantaloupe]

idk what it says about me that i'm going to strangers on the internet for academic advice but if you know any solidly academic reliable biographic resources about verdi that would be much appreciated i'm trying to write a paper. answers on the sooner side would be ideal but i don't particularly expect anything either i am simply a college freshman freaking out a little

my best piece of advice is to check your school's library website, which should have a search function that will let you see what kind of resources (physical and digital) are available. literally just typing "verdi giuseppe" into your library website's searchbox will start to pull up anything in the catalogue (online and physical) that you can access. for general biographic info you probably want to look for books and book chapters (like in a "romantic music" or "history of opera" kind of textbook/anthology), which there should be filter options for. although you might find journal articles on specific aspects of his life that could prove interesting/useful (i don't know what kind of project you're working on or its scope so i'm just throwing ideas at you). mess around with adding other keywords like "biography" or "life" or something specific like that if you want to try narrowing your search results.

also check to see if they have a list of databases that your school library subscribes to, because there are a number of good academic resources that are totally available online but require institutional access and aren't freely accessible without login. new grove/oxford music online is a good place to start for encyclopedic style entries on most musical topics, if your library has access to it, and articles will include a bibliography of sources used for more information if you want to keep looking.