Pietro Metastasio

Edizione decimaterza. Coordinata e completa con nuovi Drammi, e varie lettere del medesimo, ridotta in otto volumi, Venezia: Presso Giuseppe Bettinelli, 1772-1775, 8 volumes. In-12° (155x100 mm). 1. First volume containing Artexerxes, Hadrian, Aetius, Olympiad: XXIV, 340 p.. Volume two which contains The Demophoon; Cato in Utica; Aless. in the Indie; Demetrius: 372 p. 3. Third volume which contains Semiramis, Dido, Zenobia, Issipyle, Hypermestra: 383 p. 4. Volume four which contains Achilles in Sciro, La Nitteti, Cyrus recognized, Attilio Regulus, The shepherd king: 384 p. 5. Fifth volume which contains The Clemency of Titus, Siroe, The triumph of Clelia, Themistocles, Antigonus, Romulus and Hersilia, the Chinese Hero: 491 p. 6. Sixth volume which contains the theatrical festivals and the lyric poems: 431 p. 7. Seventh volume which contains the sacred dramas and poems composed by the author in his childish age: 368 p. 8: Eighth volume no longer printed in Venice, in which after the dissertation by Mr. Ranieri di Calsabigi, contains the following new compositions by the Author: Il Ruggiero, La Partenope, I Votos Pubblic, La Pubblica Felicita, and a new Cantata. And these are followed by the praise of Metastasio made by Mr. Michele Torcia, with some Sonnets in praise of the same, and finally the Sententious of all his dramatic works, collected according to the subjects in alphabetical order, In Venezia: A Spese de' Remondini, 1775: iv, CLXVIII, 234 p. Half leather bindings with gold decorations and titles on the spine, with defects. Slight foxing and small flaws

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