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L'Aminta and Il Pastor Fido by Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini - 1824

by Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini

L'Aminta and Il Pastor Fido by Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini - 1824

L'Aminta and Il Pastor Fido

by Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini

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Milano - Dalla Tipografia di Commercio, 1824 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Poems from two of Italy's great Renaissance poets. No poet was more influential on music history in the late Renaissance and Baroque eras than Guarini. While Guarini's work may be seen as lacking the deep feeling and sentiment of Torquato Tasso, his rival at the Estensi court, it was precisely this quality which commended it to musical setting at a time when excessive emotionalism had become unfashionable. Tasso's Aminta is a pastoral drama of very simple plot, but of exquisite lyrical charm. It appeared at the moment when music, under Palestrina's impulse, was becoming the main art of Italy. The honeyed melodies and sensuous melancholy of Aminta exactly suited and interpreted the spirit of its age. Its influence, in opera and cantata, was felt through two successive centuries. Binders label of R Carswell and Son, Belfast to front pastedown. Condition: In a half calf binding. Externally sound, with just slight wear to the leather. Internally, firmly bound. Bright with scattered spotting throughout, and just a few small tidemarks. Overall: VERY GOOD..
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  • Publisher Milano - Dalla Tipografia di Commercio
  • Date Published 1824
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by Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini

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Milano: Dalla Tipografia di Commercio, 1824. Leather. Very Good. 6.5" by 4". None. Poems from two of Italy's great Renaissance poets. No poet was more influential on music history in the late Renaissance and Baroque eras than Guarini. While Guarini's work may be seen as lacking the deep feeling and sentiment of Torquato Tasso, his rival at the Estensi court, it was precisely this quality which commended it to musical setting at a time when excessive emotionalism had become unfashionable. Tasso's Aminta is a pastoral drama of very simple plot, but of exquisite lyrical charm. It appeared at the moment when music, under Palestrina's impulse, was becoming the main art of Italy. The honeyed melodies and sensuous melancholy of Aminta exactly suited and interpreted the spirit of its age. Its influence, in opera and cantata, was felt through two successive centuries. Binders label of R Carswell and Son, Belfast to front pastedown. In a half calf binding. Externally sound, with just slight wear to the… Read More
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Le tre più celebri pastorali italiane, cioè, Aminta, favola boscareccia di Torquato Tasso; Il Pastor Fido, tragi-commedia pastorale del Guarini; Filli di Sciro, favola pastorale del C. Guidubaldo de' Bonarelli. Bibliothèque des meilleurs poëtes italiens, 36.

by TASSO, Torquato, Giovanni Battista Guarini, and C. Guidubaldo de' Bonarelli

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Orléans, Da' Torchj di L.P. Couret de Villeneuve, 1787.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, contemporary speckled calf, smooth spine gilt in six compartments, red spine labels in second and third compartments with titles (some wear to edges and hinges, slightly defective at head and foot of spine), marbled endleaves, text block edges marbled. Woodcut vignette on title page. Woodcut headpieces and ornaments. Scattered light stains and browning. Overall good to very good condition. 502 pp. *** First edition thus. Two of these three pastoral plays formed the inspiration for operas. Tasso's Aminta, a pastoral romance set in the era of Alexander the Great, was the basis of a libretto by Metastasio, Il re pastore, which premiered in 1751. Metastasio's libretto became the basis of Mozart's Il re pastore, which premiered in 1775, and of Aminta, il re pastore, by Antonio Mazzoni (d. 1785). Tasso's story was the basis for the ballet Sylvia, ou La nymphe de Diane, with music by Léo Delibes, first performed in 1876.… Read More
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