L'Alceo favola pescatoria d'Antonio Ongaro, fatta recitare in Ferrara dall'Ill.mo S. Enzo Bentivogli mentre la seconda volta era Principe dell'Accademia degl'Intrepidi, con gl'Intramezzi del Sig. Cavalier Batista Guarini. Descritti, e dichiarati dall'Arsiccio accademico Ricreduto. Aggiuntici appresso alcuni Discorsi del medesimo Arsiccio sopra ciascheduno Intramezzo. Dedicati all'Ill.mo & Rev.mo Sig. Cardinal Serra

4to (206x140 mm). 8 leaves, 9-40 pp., 41-48 ll., 49-306, [2: errata] pp. Collation: A⁸ B-E⁴ F⁸ G-Pp⁴ Qq². Title page within a woodcut border with the coat-of-ars of the dedicatee in the center. Roman and italic type. Woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Names of the characters on l. 6 printed within woodcut borders. Later half vellum, morocco lettering piece on spine, endleaves in colored papaers. A good copy.

Fourteenth edition overall (first: Venice 1582) of this extremely successful play, but first with the intermedii, which replace Ongaro's prologue and choral songs. This edition is dedicated to Cardinal Serra by Baldini (from Ferrara, last day of February 1614). In the printer's foreword, Baldini states that Enzo Bentivogli planned a performance fifteen months earlier and he put together an edition including these intermedii. But the plans were postponed and the intermedii were performed with the tragedy Idalba instead. However, Baldini is publishing the intermedii with Alceo, as originally planned. Though attributed to Guarini on the title page, the intermedii are probably the work of Ottavio Magnanini (Arsiccio Accademico Ricreduto), who also provided the prose description.

Sartori, 582; Vinciana, 4097; Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\SBLE\003052; Clubb, 646; Michel-Michel, VI, 35; Bregoli Russo, 447.

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