[Theatre] Metastasio, Opere, 1781-83, 16 vols
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BEAUTIFUL FIGURATIVE EDITION BY ZATTA OF THIS IMPRESSIVE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF ALL THE WORKS OF METASTASIO
Metastasio, Pietro. Opere del signor ab. Pietro Metastasio poeta cesareo giusta le correzioni, e aggiunte dell'autore nell'edizione di Parigi del 1780. Tomo I. [ -XVI.]. Venezia: presso Antonio Zatta, 1781-1783.
12mo (156x88 mm), half leather binding, marbled paper at boards, gilt title on leather label at spine, red sprinkled edges; 16 vols.
Portrait of the A. at first volume frontispiece, engraved by Marco Pitteri.
Each volume has its own copper engraved title-page with a vignette.
At the beginning of each act there is a half page xyl. vignette.
The text is enriched by 124 large copper engraved vignette and 118 full-page copper plates out of text.
One of the most important and complete editions of the works of Metastasio, with dramas, speakers, poems, translations.
For this prestigious enterprise, Giambattista Zatta availed himself of the collaboration of the most talented Venetian artists of the tim. The many copper engravings are by Giuliano Zuliani, Gianantonio Zuliani, Cristoforo Dall'Acqua, Antonio Baratti, Pellegrino dal Colle, Pietro Daniotto, Innocente Alessandri on original drawings by Giuseppe Gobbis and Pietro Antonio Novelli.
Tomes 14 and 16 have title: Opere postume del sig. ab. Pietro Metastasio poeta cesareo, che compariscono per la prima volta alla luce giusta l'edizione di Parigi del MDCCLXXXIII.
References: IT\ICCU\MUS\0022536. OCLC, 54991924.
Metastasio, Pietro. Opere del signor ab. Pietro Metastasio poeta cesareo giusta le correzioni, e aggiunte dell'autore nell'edizione di Parigi del 1780. Tomo I. [ -XVI.]. Venezia: presso Antonio Zatta, 1781-1783.
12mo (156x88 mm), half leather binding, marbled paper at boards, gilt title on leather label at spine, red sprinkled edges; 16 vols.
Portrait of the A. at first volume frontispiece, engraved by Marco Pitteri.
Each volume has its own copper engraved title-page with a vignette.
At the beginning of each act there is a half page xyl. vignette.
The text is enriched by 124 large copper engraved vignette and 118 full-page copper plates out of text.
One of the most important and complete editions of the works of Metastasio, with dramas, speakers, poems, translations.
For this prestigious enterprise, Giambattista Zatta availed himself of the collaboration of the most talented Venetian artists of the tim. The many copper engravings are by Giuliano Zuliani, Gianantonio Zuliani, Cristoforo Dall'Acqua, Antonio Baratti, Pellegrino dal Colle, Pietro Daniotto, Innocente Alessandri on original drawings by Giuseppe Gobbis and Pietro Antonio Novelli.
Tomes 14 and 16 have title: Opere postume del sig. ab. Pietro Metastasio poeta cesareo, che compariscono per la prima volta alla luce giusta l'edizione di Parigi del MDCCLXXXIII.
References: IT\ICCU\MUS\0022536. OCLC, 54991924.
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[Theatre] Metastasio, Opere, 1781-83, 16 vols
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