DA PONTE, Lorenzo. Bertoldo e Bertoldino, dramma giocoso per musica da rappresentarsi nel Teatro dell’Illustrissima Città d’Alessandria in occasione della Fiera d’Aprile, e Maggio dell’anno 1791. Alessandria, nella Stamperia d’Ignazio...
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Description
Vimercati, [1791]
Small 8vo, mm. 145x95; Contemporary REMONDINI binding, hardcover decorated with woodcut sown of stars and points in gold on white ivory ; pp. 8, 62, 2; ornaments on Titlepage, Round type.
RARE EDITION, only one specimen known. Da Ponte wrote the book while he was in Vienna, in the period when he worked together with Mozart, Martini, Salieri. He talks about it in "Memoirs" in relation to the German edition. In the pages in which he talks of this little book, Da Ponte also recalls his friendship with Giacomo Casanova, who wrote two versions of Don Giovanni, opera output shortly after Bertoldo. In 1791 Da Ponte had to leave Vienna and traveled to Prague where he met again Casanova, who gave him precious and "tasty" tips on how to behave in Paris and in London.
This amusing opera in two acts, with six characters and two intervals with dancing, music by Antonio Brunetti, was first performed in Florence in the carnival of 1788, under the title Il Bertoldo.
Per le edizioni di Firenze e di Genova, cfr. G. Legger, Drammaturgia musicale italiana, Torino, 2005; Sonneck, Catalogue of Opera librettos printed before 1800, Washington, Vol. I, pp. 216, 217.
Condition Report: Nice condition.
Small 8vo, mm. 145x95; Contemporary REMONDINI binding, hardcover decorated with woodcut sown of stars and points in gold on white ivory ; pp. 8, 62, 2; ornaments on Titlepage, Round type.
RARE EDITION, only one specimen known. Da Ponte wrote the book while he was in Vienna, in the period when he worked together with Mozart, Martini, Salieri. He talks about it in "Memoirs" in relation to the German edition. In the pages in which he talks of this little book, Da Ponte also recalls his friendship with Giacomo Casanova, who wrote two versions of Don Giovanni, opera output shortly after Bertoldo. In 1791 Da Ponte had to leave Vienna and traveled to Prague where he met again Casanova, who gave him precious and "tasty" tips on how to behave in Paris and in London.
This amusing opera in two acts, with six characters and two intervals with dancing, music by Antonio Brunetti, was first performed in Florence in the carnival of 1788, under the title Il Bertoldo.
Per le edizioni di Firenze e di Genova, cfr. G. Legger, Drammaturgia musicale italiana, Torino, 2005; Sonneck, Catalogue of Opera librettos printed before 1800, Washington, Vol. I, pp. 216, 217.
Condition Report: Nice condition.
