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ARTEAGA, Stefano. Le Rivoluzioni del Teatro Musicale Italiano Dalla sua Origine Fino al Presente. Opera di......Socio dell' Accademia delle Scienze, Arti e Belle Lettere di Padova. Venezia: Nella stamperia di Carlo Palese, 1785. In three volumes. Second edition, enlarged and corrected by the author. Tall 8vo., cont. vellum spines, marble boards, leather spine labels, xlii, 361, (1); 332; 394pp. With 6 pages of music on three folding pages at the rear of volume two. Minor rubbing o/w a fine copy. Stefano Arteaga [1747-1799] was a young Spanish Jesuit at the time the Jesuits were repressed in Spain. He withdrew to Italy and lived mainly in Bologna. Arteaga wrote the above, the first critical history of opera. The first edition was a single volume and appeared in Bologna several years earlier but difficulties prevented it from being printed in its entirity. Arteaga made several alterations and additions and the much enlarged second edition appeared in 1785. The work was quite successful and translated into German and French. $1,750.00 |
