PRINKED FOR PRESENTATION
[PREDIERI, Luca Antonio, composer; Apostolo ZENO, librettist.]
La tirannide vendicata, drama per musica, da rappresentarsi nel pubblico teatro di Pesaro il Carnovale dell’ Anno 1726, dedicato a sua eccellenza D. Teresa Borromeo Albani, principessa di Soriano, ec.
Pesaro, Gavelli, 1726.
8vo, pp. [viii], 60; woodcut ornament to title, large woodcut initial, typographic headpiece; bound in contemporary red silk damask over a carta rustica case, vestigial ties to fore-edge, sewn longstitch and bypass between 4 pierced stations; minimal rubbing to spine, but exceptionally well-preserved.
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La tirannide vendicata, drama per musica, da rappresentarsi nel pubblico teatro di Pesaro il Carnovale dell’ Anno 1726, dedicato a sua eccellenza D. Teresa Borromeo Albani, principessa di Soriano, ec.
First edition, very rare, of the libretto of an opera performed at Pesaro in 1726, bound in red damask most likely for presentation to the dedicatee, Teresa Borromeo Albani.
More commonly titled Merope after its protagonist, the libretto of La tirannide vendicata by Apostolo Zeno (1668–1750) has been set to music by several composers; the present performance, at Pesaro during Carnival in 1726, was to a now-lost score by Luca Antonio Predieri (1688–1767), sung by musicians from around Italy listed on A3v.
The copy at the University of California Berkeley, though damaged, preserves a contemporary binding in carta rustica with an identical sewing structure, suggesting that our copy may in fact have been bound in a simple and cheap binding with the rest of the edition, before being covered in costly silk damask for presentation.
OCLC finds only one copy worldwide, at Berkeley; not in RISM, Library Hub, or OPAC SBN.
