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Title
Perseo
Drama per musica
Creator
Mattioli, Andrea
Composer
Aureli, Aurelio, -1708
Librettist
Mancini, Philippe-Julien, duc de Nevers, 1639-1707
Dedicatee
Date Created and/or Issued
1665
Publication Information
In Venetia
Per Francesco Nicolini
Si vende in Spadaria
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library
Collection
Italian Librettos
Rights Information
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Description
Prologue and Three acts; illustration--p. [1]; p. 37-67 misnumbered 49-79; librettist's dedication--p. [3]-[4]; foreword--p. [5]-[6]; "Argomento di quello si hà da Ouidio"--p. [7]-[8]; scene descriptions--p. [10]; "Prologo[:] Reggia di Nettuno"--p. [11]-[12].
Music by Andrea Mattioli--New Grove.
First performed at the Teatro [Grimani] di SS. Giovanni e Paolo--New Grove.
"Con licenza de' super."--title page.
"Ballo primo: di fantasme; Ballo secondo: di ninfe maritime; Ballo terzo: di sospetti seguaci della Gelosia"--p. [10].
Performers' names not given.
US-BEm
Type
text
Extent
12 , 79 i.e. 67 , 1 p. ill. 14 cm.
Identifier
(librettos)00060
Language
Italian
Subject
Operas--Librettos
Ballets
Giove
Pallade
Mercurio
Fama
Nettuno
Perseo
Sisifo
Merope
Cefeo
Andromeda
Lesba
Fineo
Ati
Oronte
Siro
Atlante
Medusa
Atlante (Ombra d')
Gelosia

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