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Title
Mvtio Scevola
Drama per mvisca nel Teatro à S. Saluatore, l'anno 1665 : all'ill.mo et ecc.mo sig.re Filippo Givliano Mazarini Mancini, dvca di Nivers, e Donziois
Alternative Title
Mutio Scevola
Muzio Scevola
Creator
Cavalli, Pier Francesco, 1602-1676
Composer
Minato, Niccolò
Librettist
Mancini, Philippe-Julien, duc de Nevers, 1639-1707
Dedicatee
Date Created and/or Issued
1665
Publication Information
In Venetia
Per il Giuliani
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library
Collection
Italian Librettos
Rights Information
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Description
Cover illustration; engraving incorporating the crest of Philippe-Julien Mancini Mazarini--p. 4; librettist's dedication, signed and dated: Nicolò Minato, di Venetia li 26. gennaro 1665--p. 5-6; foreword--p. 7-8; "Argomento"--p. 9-10; scene descriptions--p. 13; "Machine" and ballet descriptions--p. 14.
"Con licenza de' superiori, e priuileg."--title page.
"Balli[:] 1. Di otto Statue, che mosse da Spiriti partono dal sito, dove circondavano la Statua di lano per ornamento, e doppo il Ballo ritornano al loro luoco. 2. Di otto seguaci di Pallade, che escono da vna Nube, e di sei Amorinni in Aria"--p. 14.
Ballets 1 and 2 incorporated into ends of acts 1 and 2 respectively.
Music by Cavalli- New Grove.
Performers' names not given.
US-BEm
Type
text
Extent
94. 2 p. 15 cm.
Identifier
(librettos)00118
Language
Italian
Subject
Operas--Librettos
Ballets
Mutio Scevola
Oratio Cocle
Laerte Porsenna
Publicola
Melvio Romano
Tarquinio
Valeria
Elisa
Vitellia
Ismeno
Clodio
Floro
Porfiria
Milo
Publio
Pallade
Venere

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