Author: CONCINA DANIELE O.P. & TONISCHI GIOVANNI AMBROGIO (PSEUD. OF GIUSEPPE DA CITTADELLA)
Title: De Spectaculis Theatralibus (by Concina) [bound with:] Saggi e riflessioni sopra i Teatri e Giuochi d'azardo di Gio. Ambrogio Tonischi, con un Ragionamento sopra i Giuochi d'invito di N.N.
Description: Roma [& Venedig = Venice], Simone Occhi, 1754 [& 1755]. 2 works bound in one volume, I (Concina): xxxvi + 360pp. with engraved vignette on title page, 2nd edition (first published in 1752), This work is an attack on the Italian dramatist Francesco Scipione Maffei (1675-1755) who revitalized Italian theatre // II (Tonischi): [8] + 158pp. with engraved vignette on title page, first edition, this work was written in support of the dramatist Maffei and expressing anger at Concina and other clerics for opposing the pleasure provided by theatrical entertainments // ca. early 19th cy. Hardcover binding (marbled boards, spine in brown leather with gilt title, some small wormholes in upper and lower end of spine), text and interior are clean and bright except for few occasional foxing and a library stamp on first French title page, few small wormholes in first pages (in the margin of the text, not in text itself), overall in good condition, rare, G105935

Keywords: Geschiedenis history Theater theatre Italie Italy moraal morale morality


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