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Title
L'Argia
Drama per mvsica da rappresentarsi nel Teatro a San Saluatore, l'anno 1669 : consacrata all'illvstrissimo e t Eccellentiss. Sig. Alessandro Contarini procvrator di San Marco
Creator
Cesti, Antonio, 1623-1669
Composer
Contarini, Alessandro
Dedicatee
Nicolini, Francesco
Dedicator
Date Created and/or Issued
1669
Publication Information
In Venetia
Appresso Nicolini, e Curti
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library
Collection
Italian Librettos
Rights Information
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Description
Three acts; printer's dedication, signed "Venetia li 23. genaro 1669...Francesco Nicolini"--p. 3-4; foreword--p. 5; "Argomento della favola"--p. 6-8; scene and ballet descriptions--p. 10; imprint repeated as colophon--p. 81.
"Con licenza de' superiori, e priuilegio"--title page.
Music by Cesti--New Grove.
"Balli: 1. di Schiaui 2. di Fantasmi"--p. 10
Performers' names not given.
US-BEm
Type
text
Extent
81, 1 p. 15 cm.
Identifier
(librettos)00013
Language
Italian
Subject
Operas--Librettos
Ballets--Scenarios
Atamante
Dorisbe
Feraspe
Aceste
Argia
Laurindo
Lucimoro
Solimano
Dema
Lurcano
Filaura
Alceo
Osmano
Venere

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