SALVADORI, Andrea (1591-1635). Guerra di Bellezza. Festa a cavallo fatta in Firenze per la venuta del serenissimo Principe d'Urbino . Florence: Zanobi Pignoni, 1616.
SALVADORI, Andrea (1591-1635). Guerra di Bellezza. Festa a cavallo fatta in Firenze per la venuta del serenissimo Principe d'Urbino . Florence: Zanobi Pignoni, 1616. 4 o (223 x 156 mm). Collation: A 2 A-C 4 D 2 (imposed and printed on one sheet with quire A). 5 folding etched plates by Jacques Callot after Giulio Parigi (plate 5 with small hole along fold and one pale stain). Large cursive type for verse, roman for prose; title and type-ornaments, heading, floral initial and first word to dedication. Engraved Urbino arms on title-page. (Some pale dampstaining.) Original flexible gilt-paper boards. Provenance : acquired from Carlo Alberto Chiesa, 1958. FIRST EDITION. A great public pageant was held in October 1616 at Florence on the occasion of a visit of the 11-year old Prince of Urbino, who was betrothed to the 12-year-old Claudia de' Medici (1604-48). It involved balls, mascherate , allegorical chariots and a tilt on the square of Santa Croce, culminating in an equestrian ballet. The floats and the grandstand for the spectators were created by Parigi, the choreography by Agniolo Ricci As "the riders guided their horses through intricate maneuvers, Fama vowed to promulgate through all the cities of Europe the perfection which the feste a cavallo had attained at the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany" (A.M. Nagler, Theatre Festivals of the Medici , Yale UP, 1964, p. 130). According to Lieure (177-182), the plates by Callot, who was a pupil of Parigi's, are extremely rare. Berlin Kat. 3042; Cicognara 1421; Ruggieri 774; Vinet 792.
SALVADORI, Andrea (1591-1635). Guerra di Bellezza. Festa a cavallo fatta in Firenze per la venuta del serenissimo Principe d'Urbino . Florence: Zanobi Pignoni, 1616.
SALVADORI, Andrea (1591-1635). Guerra di Bellezza. Festa a cavallo fatta in Firenze per la venuta del serenissimo Principe d'Urbino . Florence: Zanobi Pignoni, 1616. 4 o (223 x 156 mm). Collation: A 2 A-C 4 D 2 (imposed and printed on one sheet with quire A). 5 folding etched plates by Jacques Callot after Giulio Parigi (plate 5 with small hole along fold and one pale stain). Large cursive type for verse, roman for prose; title and type-ornaments, heading, floral initial and first word to dedication. Engraved Urbino arms on title-page. (Some pale dampstaining.) Original flexible gilt-paper boards. Provenance : acquired from Carlo Alberto Chiesa, 1958. FIRST EDITION. A great public pageant was held in October 1616 at Florence on the occasion of a visit of the 11-year old Prince of Urbino, who was betrothed to the 12-year-old Claudia de' Medici (1604-48). It involved balls, mascherate , allegorical chariots and a tilt on the square of Santa Croce, culminating in an equestrian ballet. The floats and the grandstand for the spectators were created by Parigi, the choreography by Agniolo Ricci As "the riders guided their horses through intricate maneuvers, Fama vowed to promulgate through all the cities of Europe the perfection which the feste a cavallo had attained at the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany" (A.M. Nagler, Theatre Festivals of the Medici , Yale UP, 1964, p. 130). According to Lieure (177-182), the plates by Callot, who was a pupil of Parigi's, are extremely rare. Berlin Kat. 3042; Cicognara 1421; Ruggieri 774; Vinet 792.
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