Details

Subject(s)

• Eurydice (Greek mythological character) [Browse]
• Operas—Librettos—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Librettist

• Rinuccini, Ottavio, 1562-1621 [Browse]

Printer

• Giunta, Cosimo, 1579- [Browse]

Composer

• Caccini, Giulio, 1551-1618 [Browse]

Dedicatee

• Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Librettos [Browse]
• Poetry [Browse]

Notes

• Libretto in verse by Ottavio Rinuccini; music by Jacopo Peri with interpolations by Giulio Caccini. -- cf. Sonneck.
• Signatures: A-E⁴.
• Printer's woodcut device on t.p., with his larger woodcut device on verso of last leaf.
• Music treasures at Princeton

Binding note

Princeton copy 1: In 19th-century Italian gold-colored laid-paper wrappers; in light-brown cloth clamshell box with printed paper spine label.

References

• O.G.T. Sonneck, Catalogue of opera librettos printed before 1800 (1914), vol. 1, p. 460-461
• C. Sartori, Libretti italiani a stampa fine al 1800 (1982), 9398
• D. Pietropaolo, The baroque libretto (2011), 2
• NUC pre-1956, vol. 450, p. 543

Place name(s)

Italy Florence.

Other title(s)

L'Evridice

OCLC

22880462

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