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Il mondo festeggiante : balletto a cavallo, fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del sereniss. gran duca, per le reali nozze de' serenissimi principi Cosimo Terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Luisa d'Orleans.

Accession number
PML 77408
Published
In Firenze : Nella Stamperia di S.A.S., 1661.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1981.
Notes
A prose description of the "balletto" (attributed to Alessandro Carducci or Alessandro Segni), interspersed with G.A. Moniglia's verses for the songs; without the music. Plates etched by Stefano della Bella.
Last leaf blank.
PML copy: without p. 3-6 (wanting ?) or never printed (?, cf. NYPL & Berlin copies).
The performance took place in the amphitheater of the Boboli Gardens on July 1, 1661. A. Carducci is credited with having conceived the event, Ferdinando Tacca designed the scenography and Domenico Anglesi composed the music.
Description
66 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. : 24 cm (4⁰.)
Binding
Marbled boards.
Classification
Department