Details

Subject(s)

• Operas—Librettos—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Composer

• Corsi, Jacopo, 1561-1602 [Browse]
• Peri, Jacopo, 1561-1633 [Browse]

Dedicatee

• Christine, of Lorraine, Grand Duchess, consort of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1565-1636 [Browse]

Printer

• Marescotti, Giorgio, active 1563-1601 [Browse]

Former owner

• Castracane, Jacopo [Browse]
• Bracchini, Francesco [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Librettos [Browse]
• Poetry [Browse]

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.

References

• O.G.T. Sonneck, Catalogue of opera librettos printed before 1800 (1914), vol. I, p. 339-345
• C. Sartori, Libretti italiani a stampa fine al 1800 (1982), 7015
• D. Pietropaolo, The baroque libretto (2011), 1
• NUC pre-1956, vol. 495, p. 615
• RISM (Répertoire international des sources musicales), 1001202158

Place name(s)

Italy Florence.

LCCN

2003586344

OCLC

53940297

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