La Dafne / d'Ottauio Rinuccini ; rappresentata alla sereniss. gran duchessa di Toscana dal signor Iacopo Corsi.

Librettist
Rinuccini, Ottavio, 1562-1621 [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
Italian
Published/​Created
In Firenze : Appresso Giorgio Marescotti, MDC [1600].
Description
[22] p., [1] leaf ; 21 cm. (4to)

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Special Collections - Rare Books ML50.2.D2355 R568 1600 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Summary note
    First printed opera libretto.
    Notes
    • Libretto in verse by Ottavio Rinuccini; music by Jacopo Corsi and Jacopo Peri; Rinuccini's text was later set to music by Giulio Caccini. -- cf. Sonneck.
    • Signatures: A-C⁴ (C1 missigned D).
    • Printer's device on verso of last leaf.
    • Music treasures at Princeton
    • Princeton copy 1: Emendation in ms. at head of p. [20]: Del S. Iacopo Corsi is corrected to Al S. Iacopo Corsi.
    Binding note
    Princeton copy 1: In later half-leather with brown paper sides decorated in style of tree-calf; in light-brown cloth clamshell box with printed paper spine label.
    Provenance
    • Princeton copy 1: Signed in ms. on recto of last leaf: Jacobi Castracanij.
    • Princeton copy 1: Bookplate: Ex libris Francisci Bracchini.
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    Place name(s)
    Italy Florence.
    LCCN
    2003586344
    OCLC
    53940297
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