COPPOLA, Giovanni Carlo, Bishop of Muro. Le nozze degli dei. Favola... rappresentata in musica in Firenze nelle reali nozze de Serenis. m i Gran Duchi di Toschana Ferdinando II e Vittoria principessa d'Urbino. Florence: Amadore Massi and Lorenzo Landi, 1637. 4°. Etched title and seven double-page plates by Stefano della Bella after the set designs of Alfonso Parigi extra-illustrated with an additional suite of later impressions of the same plates (except for one of the folding plates) bound at the back. (Plates cut to edge of images and re-margined to size, 7 with neatly repaired tears or holes.) Modern red morocco gilt. Provenance : Piero Ginori Conti (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of the libretto for this masque celebrating the wedding of Vulcan to Venus. It was written by Coppola, the Bishop of Muro, to commemorate the marriage of the Grand Duke to Princess della Rovere of Urbino on the 8 July 1637. Della Bella's etchings (his first major undertaking for the Medici court) are the only surviving record of Parigi's staging of this remarkable production. The additional suite is a late 17th- or early 18th-century reissue. Berlin Kat. 4116; BL 17th-Century Italian I, p. 259; Brunet II, 262; De Vesme & Massar, Stefano della Bella Catalogue Raisonné , 918-925; Vinciana 209.
COPPOLA, Giovanni Carlo, Bishop of Muro. Le nozze degli dei. Favola... rappresentata in musica in Firenze nelle reali nozze de Serenis. m i Gran Duchi di Toschana Ferdinando II e Vittoria principessa d'Urbino. Florence: Amadore Massi and Lorenzo Landi, 1637. 4°. Etched title and seven double-page plates by Stefano della Bella after the set designs of Alfonso Parigi extra-illustrated with an additional suite of later impressions of the same plates (except for one of the folding plates) bound at the back. (Plates cut to edge of images and re-margined to size, 7 with neatly repaired tears or holes.) Modern red morocco gilt. Provenance : Piero Ginori Conti (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of the libretto for this masque celebrating the wedding of Vulcan to Venus. It was written by Coppola, the Bishop of Muro, to commemorate the marriage of the Grand Duke to Princess della Rovere of Urbino on the 8 July 1637. Della Bella's etchings (his first major undertaking for the Medici court) are the only surviving record of Parigi's staging of this remarkable production. The additional suite is a late 17th- or early 18th-century reissue. Berlin Kat. 4116; BL 17th-Century Italian I, p. 259; Brunet II, 262; De Vesme & Massar, Stefano della Bella Catalogue Raisonné , 918-925; Vinciana 209.
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