Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Ercole in Tebe : festa teatrale rappresentata in Firenze per le reali nozze de' serenissimi sposi Cosimo Terzo, principe di Toscana, e Margherita Luisa, principessa d'Orleans.

Accession number
PML 77407
Creator
Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea, 1624-1700.
Published
In Fiorenza : Nella nuoua Stamperia all'Insegna della Stella, 1661.
Credit line
Gift; Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager; 1981.
Notes
Apparently first edition, first issue.
Includes a libretto by G. Moniglia and description of the "festa teatrale" by Alessandro Segni; without the music. Plates etched by Valerio Spada.
Numbers 5-8 repeated in pagination.
PML copy: cancelled t.p.
Signatures: *⁴ A-S⁴ T⁶.
The performance took place at the Teatro dell'Accademia degli Immobili on July 12, 1661. Ferdinando Tacca designed the scenography and Jacopo Melani composed the music.
Description
[8], 152 [i.e. 156] p., [13] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm (4⁰.)
Binding
Vellum.
Classification
Department