Messalina / [libretto di] Francesco Maria Picc[i]oli ; [musica di] Carlo Pallavicino ; edizione del libretto, saggio introduttivo a cura di Eleanor Selfridge-Field.
Reproduces a ms. score from the Contarini Collection, now in the Biblioteca nazionale Marciana, Venice (Cod. It. IV-437 = 9961) and individual arias not present in the score from the ms. score in the Biblioteca nazionale universitaria, Turin (MS Giordano 25). At head of title: Istituto italiano Antonio Vivaldi della Fondazione Giorgio Cini Venezia ; Dipartimento di storia e critica delle arti della Università di Venezia. Original Italian libretto printed on p. [xlvii]-lxxiv. Editorial, historical, and critical notes in English and Italian. Includes bibliographical references. Plate "L'air ne fait pas la chanson," tipped in following title page.
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