Il Solimano : tragedia

Description

Title: Il Solimano : tragedia
Creator: Bonarelli, Prospero, 1580-1659
Contributor: Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635, ill.
Cecconcelli, Pietro, printer.
Published / Created: MDCXX [1620]
Publication Place: In Firenze
Publisher: Nella Stamperia di Pietro Cecconcelli
Description: BEIN Italian Festivals 62: No. 1 of 2 works bound together with spine title: Il Solimano e L'Aristodemo.
BEIN Monteverdi 42: From the Albi Rosenthal Collection of Monteverdi and the birth of opera.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in Italian flexible boards covered with pink paper gilt-stamped with floral motif.
The scenes here illustrated were copied when this production was revived in 1623, for the festivities on the occasion of the visit of the cardinal Francesco Sacrati.
Illustrations by Jacques Callot comprising illustrated title-page with Medici arms, and 5 double plates representing the stage setting.
Imprint from colophon: In Firenze nella stamperia di Pietro Cecconcelli. MDCXX. Alle stelle Medicee. Con licenzia de' periori.
Signatures: a⁶ A-V⁴ X².
Pages 33-40 and 89 misnumbered 41-48 and 98 respectively.
"Al ser.mo granduca di Toscana."
Errata on p. [1] at end.
Extent: [12], 162, [2] p., 5 leaves of plates (folded) : 23 cm. (4to)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Italian Festivals 62
Collection Title: Multi-title collection including Il Solimano : tragedia and 1 other(s).

Genre: Librettos
Drama
Libretti
Etchings
Material: ill. ;
Subject (Name): Süleyman I, Sultan of the Turks, 1494 or 1495-1566
Subject (Topic): Operas
Subjects: Operas > Librettos
Süleyman I, Sultan of the Turks, 1494 or 1495-1566 > Drama
Rosenthal, Albi, 1914-2004 > Ownership

Access: Public
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