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Title
Scipione affricano
Drama per mvsica nel Teatro à SS. Gio: e Paolo l'anno 1664 : dedicato all'Illustriss. & Eccellentiss. Sig. D. Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna prencipe romano grande di Spagna di prima classe, gran contestabile del regno di Napoli, &c
Creator
Cavalli, Pier Francesco, 1602-1676
Composer
Minato, Niccolò
Librettist
Colonna, Lorenzo Onofrio, 1637-1689
Dedicatee
Date Created and/or Issued
1664
Publication Information
In Venetia
Per Steffano Curti e Franc. Nicolini
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library
Collection
Italian Librettos
Rights Information
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Description
Three acts; dedication, signed "N.M."--p. [3]-[4]; foreword--p. [5]-[6]; "Argomento"--p. [7]-[8]; descriptions of scenes, actions carried out by machines, ballet sequences--p. [10]; imprint repeated as colophon.
"Con licenza de' superiori"--title page.
Music by Cavalli--foreword.
Libretto by Niccolò Minato--New Grove.
"Balli: Di Gladiatori; Di Spiriti; Di Giocatori di Marte"--p. [10]
Performers' names not given.
US-BEm
Type
text
Extent
10 , 74, 2 p. 15 cm.
Identifier
(librettos)00056
Language
Italian
Subject
Operas--Librettos
Ballets
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Catone
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