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Book ID: 2955
| Title | A Renaissance Entertainment: Festivities for the marriage of Cosimo I, Duke of Florence, in 1539: An Edition of the Music, Poetry, Comedy, and Descriptive Account with Commentary | |||||
| Authors | Minor, Andrew C. (ed.); Mitchell, Bonner (ed.); Landi, Antonio; Giambullari, Pier Francesco | |||||
| Year of event | 1539 | |||||
| Event description | Wedding in Florence of Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Tuscany (1519-1574), and Leonor of Toledo (1522-1562) | |||||
| Event type | Weddings and betrothals | |||||
| Event place | Florence | |||||
| Publication info | Columbia: University of Missouri Press; 1968; 4° | |||||
| Pages | 373pp | |||||
| Illustrations | Illustrated | |||||
| Festival type | Comedies; Intermedi; Musical performances and concerts; Verses | |||||
| Rulers | Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Tuscany; Leonor of Toledo, Duchess of Tuscany | |||||
| Artists | Gelli, Giovanni Batista; Landi, Antonio; Strozzi, Giovanni Battista; Corteccia, Francesco; Festa, Costanzo; Rampollini, Mattio; Masaconi, Giovanni Pietro; Moschini, Baccio | |||||
| Shelfmark | BL BL X.439/2630 | |||||
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| Notes | See also Book ID 1165. Includes commentary on the political, literary, musicological and art historical background, and translation of the texts and transcription of music: Translation of Pierfrancesco Giambullari’s Descrizione dell’apparato et feste nelle nozze del Illustrissimo Signor Duca di Firenze, et della Duchessa sua consorte, con le sue Stanze, Madriali, Comedia, et Intermedii, in quelle recitati (Florence; Giunti; 1539) Music inserted from Musiche fatte nelle nozze dello illustrissimo Duca di Firenze il signor Cosimo de’ Medici et della illustrissima consorte sua mad. Leonora da Tolleto (Venice; A. Gardane; 1539) Verses by Giambattista Gelli; music by Francesco Corteccia, Costanzo Festa, Mattio Rampollini, Giovanni Pietro Masaconi, Baccio Moschini; comedy (Il Commodo) by Antonio Landi; intermedii music by Francesco Corteccia and intermedii verses by Giovan Battista Strozzi | |||||