The guitar music of Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841) is often associated with didactical material and with a large number of editions destined for home music making by amateurs. This small anthology of sonatas by Carulli comes from a manuscript dated 1805, which was compiled for the personal use of one such amateur, a certain Italian nobleman named Niccolò Mancini. This manuscript may be an autograph, or it may be a compilation made by a copyist on order from Signor Mancini, whoever he may have be...