Comedie / di Bernardino Cenci, Accademico Insensato.

Abstract:

Collection of five apparently unpublished comedies by an Italian baroque dramatist. Two of them are librettos for musical dramas.

Creator:

Cenci, Bernardino.

Date:

1695

Identifier:

9924864543503681; (OCoLC)ocn155964471; (OCoLC)155964471; (PU)2486454-penndb-Voyager; (CStRLIN)PAUR95-A495

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Sold by H.P. Kraus in the Giuseppe Martini collection, ca. 1948.

Publisher:

[Perugia or Pistoia], [1695]

Relation:

Trionfo della belleza.; Alceste.; Amante occulto.; Dall'odio, l'amore.; Gare dell' Amicitia.

Subject:

Italian drama -- To 1700.; Italian drama.; Italian literature.; Italian literature -- 17th century.; Codices.; Librettos (documents for music); Plays (performing arts compositions); Manuscripts, European.; Manuscripts, Italian.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

199 leaves : paper; 266 x 190 mm bound to 271 x 195 mm

Personal Name:

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Origin: Written in Perugia or Pistoia, ca. 1695 (Zacour-Hirsch). The latest play in the collection is dated 1695, and the manuscript appears to be contemporary with when the plays were written.; Ms. codex.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Title from title page (p. iii).; Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 199 + i (contemporary paper); [viii], 1-390; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. The fourth folio appears to be a later addition.; Binding: Contemporary parchment. Boards badly warped, worn at edges and cracking at hinges and spine. Indications of possible worm damage on spine. Fourth folio very loose. A few light stains and smudges.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 354