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Il Siroe : dramma per musica / del signor abate Pietro Metastasio ; da rappresentarsi in Modena nel Teatro Molza il Carnovale MDCCXLII ...

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection RBC 2026 79
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782, librettist.
Contributor:
Finazzi, Filippo, 1705-1776, composer.
Bianchi, Marco, active 18th century, set designer.
Bianchi, Antonio, choreographer.
Canziani, Natale, costume designer.
Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Sovereign Duchess of Massa and Princess of Carrara, 1725-1790, dedicatee.
Torri, Francesco, active 1735-1757, printer.
Molza, Gherardo, marchese, 1819-1892, former owner.
Standardized Title:
Siroe re di Persia
Language:
Italian
Subjects (All):
Cyrus, the Great, King of Persia, -530 B.C. or 529 B.C--Drama--Early works to 1800.
Cyrus.
Physical Description:
81, [3] pages ; 18 cm
Fingerprint:
o-he o.ga o.co paSe (3) 1742 (A)
Place of Publication:
In Modena : Per Francesco Torri, 1742.
Contents:
[Dedication]
Argomento
Mutazioni di scene. Atto primo ; Atto secondo ; Atto terzo
Imprimatur.
Notes:
"La musica è del signor Filippo Finazzi Accademico Filarmonico. Le scene sono inventate, e dipinte dal sig. Marco Bianchi da Correggio, architetto, et pittore. I balli sono invenzione del signor Antonio Bianchi. Il vestiario è del signor Natale Canziani."--Page 6.
Date appears before printer's name on title leaf.
Signatures: A⁴² (leaf A42 blank). Vertical chain lines.
Woodcut title vignette, initials, factotum, head- and tail-pieces.
"Dedicato all' altezza serenissima di Maria Teresa duchessa di Massa e Carrara, principessa ereditaria di Modena."--Title leaf.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center RBC 2026 79 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from Edmund Brumfitt. Label ("M. Gherardo Molza") on page opposite title leaf. Bookseller's description of this copy laid in. Binding: orange wrappers with gilt floral pattern.
OCLC:
1586991331

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