Added to your basket:
Il buon’ uso della vittoria, ossia Publio Cornelio Scipione nella nuova Cartagine: azione accademica da rappresentarsi nel giorno natalizio dell’ Altezza Serenissima di Francesco III., duca di Modena, Reggio, Mirandola ec., nel loro domestic teatro. Composta, recitata, e dedicata alla medisima Serenissima Altezza da’ signori convittori del collegio de’ nobili di Modena, l’anno MDCCLXXVI.

Checkout now

First edition. A scarce play with music and ballet, prepared and performed by the Collegio dei Nobili di Modena for celebrations of the birthday of Francesco III d’Este, Duke of Modena. The work comprises a play in three acts on Scipio Africanus by Alessandro Guinigi, three short ballets drawn from Greek mythology (Andromeda liberate da Perseo, Arianna e Teseo, and Ifigenia), and three songs, by Franceso Chizzola, Giulio Paini, and Ernesto Bevilacqua. The final ten pages list the members of the college and their roles in the production, showing members of leading noble families from across Italy.

Rare: OCLC records only three institutional copies worldwide (Bibliotheque nationale de France, University of Illinois, and University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library).

You may also be interested in...

MUSIC TO LIFT THE SOUL [CONGREGATION OF THE ORATORY OF ST PHILIP NERI.]

A collection of seven componimenti sacri per musica for the Oratory of St Philip Neri of Venice.

A collection of seven libretti for sacred oratorios, to be performed in the Oratory of St Philip Neri in Venice.

Read more

A TRAGIC FARCE DAVIDSON, John.

Smith: a Tragedy.

First edition of a rare foray into drama by a Scottish poet who influenced T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens. John Davidson (1857-1909) was highly regarded during his lifetime by writers like W.B. Yeats, and later by Eliot, Stevens, and Aldous Huxley. Along with Yeats, Ernest Dowson, and others, he was a member of The Rhymers Club, whose members met at the ‘Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese’ in Fleet Street. His poem ‘Thirty Bob a Week’ (1905 was a particular favourite of Eliot’s, who edited a collection of Davidson’s poems in 1961, and frequently vocalised the artistic debt he owed the Scottish poet. Davidson’s own life was consistently tragic, and his constant money troubles and bouts of depression eventually caused him to commit suicide in March 1909.

Read more