Lettera al sig. Alberico Cibo, principe di Massa, sopra il giuoco fatto dal gran dvca inti
By Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635, Cybo-Malaspina, Alberico, 1534-1623. Published 1616. Free to read and download from Internet Archive.
Description
The tournament and horse ballet Guerra d'amore took place in the Piazza Santa Croce during carnival on Feb. 11 or 12, 1616 (1615 by Lady Day reckoning). Cosimo II took the role of Indamoro, King of Narsinga. For a full description see Nagler Another work on the festival, published in the same year by Zanobi Pignoni at Florence, was Andrea Salvadori's Guerra d'amore. Two of its four full-sheet etchings by Jacques Callot were re-used in the present ed. One of these depicts four floats, two horsemen and six actors on foot, and the other consists of 16 diagrams of participants' positions at various stages of the spectacle. In the present ed. these were intended to be cut apart and mounted at blank places reserved for them in the text Engraving on t.p. with Medici arms, not by Callot; see Lieure. Headpieces, one ornamented woodcut initial Lieure, J. Jacques Callot Nagler, A.M. Theatre festiva
- Author
- Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635, Cybo-Malaspina, Alberico, 1534-1623
- Date
- 1616
- Publisher
- In Pisa : Appresso Giouanni Fontani
- Language
- ita
- Copyright
- Public domain in the US
Subjects
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