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Designs for Il Bellerofonte / Giacomo Torelli.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio MT955 .T65 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Torelli, Giacomo, 1608-1678.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nolfi, Vincenzo, 1594-1665. Bellerofonte.
- Operas--Stage guides.
- Operas.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tobin, Robert L. B. (autograph)
- McKittrick, Bruce (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 1 unnumbered leaf, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [San Antonio?] : [Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum?], 2000.
- Notes:
- Introduction by Robert Lynn Batts Tobin.
- Reproduction of "Eleven hitherto unknown engravings printed on Vellum ... bound in contemporary maroon velvet ... for presentation to Ferdinando de Medici."
- Title taken from introduction.
- Cover in maroon velvet.
- Spiral bound.
- Torelli "was the first great opera designer." These 11 designs are for the opera Il Bellerofonte.
- In 1642 the text of the libretto by Nolfi, and plates of the stage set, were published in Venice by Valgrisi.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Rare copy has NY Times obit for Tobin enclosed.
- Contains:
- Bellerofonte.
- OCLC:
- 810532189
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