# Verdi’s wife Margherita Barezzi and their young children die in 1838–1840, collapsing his first household

Date: 1840

## The fact

Britannica’s life dates the deaths of [Verdi](/people/giuseppe-verdi)’s children and then Margherita Barezzi by June 1840, leaving him widowed before Un giorno di regno. Physicians and the Barezzi family share the private file later made public in biography.

It is one event.

## Context

Oberto’s 1839 premiere is a neighbouring professional row. The September 1840 comic flop is neighbouring career harm.

Giuseppe Verdi’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Pre-unification Busseto/Milan household medicine; Barezzi patronage continued after the losses.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and Istituto Verdiani biographical files independently narrate the 1838–1840 family deaths.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Giuseppe Verdi (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giuseppe-Verdi; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Serial family deaths are a health-capacity path of household loss.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1840 widowhood after child deaths in the biography file. Not established: modern pathogen labels beyond received accounts.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Giuseppe Verdi.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `health-system-capacity` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Giuseppe Verdi did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not invent day precision beyond the received June 1840 widowhood marker used here. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Giuseppe Verdi.
The driver `health-system-capacity` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Giuseppe Verdi did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not invent day precision beyond the received June 1840 widowhood marker used here. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Giuseppe Verdi.

## People

- Giuseppe Verdi: https://factrail.ai/people/giuseppe-verdi

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.studiverdiani.it/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giuseppe-Verdi

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gv-family-deaths-1840