DUFORT, Giambatista. Trattato del ballo nobile di Giambatista Dufort indirizzato all’eccellenza delle signore dame, e de’ signori cavalieri napoletani. Napoli, Mosca 1728.
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Description
8vo, mm. 160x105; contemporary vellum binding, title written on the back; pp. 24 not numbered including Title-page, 160; Initials illustrated, head piece and plates within the text.
Very RARE ORIGINAL EDITION Imported Treaty of baroque dance, they are explained movements, steps, figures and evolutions of the dance noble; six chapters are devoted to the minuet. The fine incisions in the text describe the different types of step and the movement of the arms. The choreographer, dancer and ballet master Dufort uses of writing Feuillet, the French master who in 1700 had developed a successful explanation and precise connotation of movement in connection with music. Since it aims to teach the "Dancing Hall" sets aside the "figures demonstration" of treaties five-seventeenth-century and uses "models signs of Chorografia, or the Art of writing Dances", which then could be understood by people stranger to the theater world what were the knights and ladies who had dedicated the work.
Gregory 79; Storia della danza italiana dalle origini ai giorni nostri, a cura di José Sasportes, 2011, pp. 160-161.
Damage to the binding, restoration to the two Half titles, internally good condition.
Very RARE ORIGINAL EDITION Imported Treaty of baroque dance, they are explained movements, steps, figures and evolutions of the dance noble; six chapters are devoted to the minuet. The fine incisions in the text describe the different types of step and the movement of the arms. The choreographer, dancer and ballet master Dufort uses of writing Feuillet, the French master who in 1700 had developed a successful explanation and precise connotation of movement in connection with music. Since it aims to teach the "Dancing Hall" sets aside the "figures demonstration" of treaties five-seventeenth-century and uses "models signs of Chorografia, or the Art of writing Dances", which then could be understood by people stranger to the theater world what were the knights and ladies who had dedicated the work.
Gregory 79; Storia della danza italiana dalle origini ai giorni nostri, a cura di José Sasportes, 2011, pp. 160-161.
Damage to the binding, restoration to the two Half titles, internally good condition.
