Scipione Affricano, drama per mvsica : nel famoso Teatro Grimano à SS. Gio. e Paolo l'anno M.DC.LXXVIII. [i.e. 1678] ; consacrato all'illustrissimo signor Ferdinando Torriano de Tassis gentil'huomo della camera del serenissimo gran duca di Toscana figlio dell'Illustriss. Sig. Barone Ottavio cameriere delle Chiavi d'Oro...

In Venetia, Per Francesco Nicolini, 1678.

Italian Librettos

Text

72 p.

15 cm.

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Three acts; librettist-adaptor's dedication, signed "Tebaldo Fattorini"--p. 3-4; librettist-adaaptor's foreword--p. 5-6; "Argomento"--p. 7-8; scene, "machine," and ballet descriptions--p. 10; imprint repeated as colophon.
In order to adapt Cavalli's setting of Minato's libretto "maggiormente al genio corrente è stato necessario di ridurlo à qualche brevità, ed accrescerlo nelle canzoni, nondimeno vi scorgerai in esso interamente la nobilità dell idea del suo autore, ne lo vederai punto variato dall'essere suo primiero"--p. 5-6.
Cavalli's music adapted by Bonaventura Viviani--foreword.
"Con licenza de' superiori, e priuilegio"--title page.
"Balli: di gladiatori; di spiriti; di giocatori di Marte"--p. 10.
Performers' names not given.
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