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Il Conclave dell 1774 : Dramma per musica da recitarsi nell' Teatro delle Damme nell Carnevale de 1775. Dedicato alle med[esim]e Damme.

Author/Creator:
Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
42 leaves : paper ; 298 x 200 (250 x 150) mm bound to 310 x 210 mm
Production:
[Rome?], 1775.
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Other Title:
Regnai nel tempo più tremendo é rio / le grand ire dei Rè vinsi, e placai.
Ho risoluto Orsini / Più consiglio non vo: se da me stesso.
Nell' iminente soppressione de Gesuiti. Sonetto.
Già trema per la febbre il Gesuito / gli commove la bile il Lusitano.
Scusa dell Abbate Sertor, ritenuto in carcere, come creduto autore del dramma, Il conclave; all Sommo Pontefice Pio Sesto.
Padre Augusto dell Tebro, io più non credo / che di dolor si mora: un folle inganno.
Subjects:
Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799.
Clement XIV, Pope, 1705-1774.
Jesuits -- History -- 18th century.
Jesuits.
History.
Jesuits -- In literature.
Italian drama -- 18th century.
Italian drama.
Italian literature -- 18th century.
Italian literature.
Italian poetry -- 18th century.
Italian poetry.
Popes -- Election -- Poetry.
Clement XIV, Pope, 1705-1774 -- Poetry.
Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799 -- Poetry.
Popes -- Election.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Plays (performing arts compositions)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Poetry.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Play in three acts about the conclave of cardinals selecting a successor to Pope Clement XIV, who died in 1774 (p. i-68). Text of play preceded by a sonnet on the death of Clement XIV (p. ii). Play followed by two short works: "Nell' iminente sopressione de Gesuiti. Sonetto" (p. 69-70); and "Scusa dell'Abbate Sertor, ritenuto in carcere, come creduto autore del dramma, Il conclave; al Sommo Pontefice Pio Sesto" (p. 71-78).
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. iii).
Attribution from p. v: "La poesia e del celebre Sig. Ab.e. Metastasio in gran parte. La musica del Sig.e. Nicolò Piscini." However, this attribution to Metastasio does not seem entirely certain; it has also been attributed to Abbate Gaetano Sertor (p. 73-78). "Attributed by [Albert] Schatz to abbate Sertori [sic] ... [who] simply used the two names then most in vogue." The music does not appear ever to have been actually composed nor the work ever performed. (Sonneck, Cat. of opera librettos.).
Incipit of prefatory sonnet (p. ii): Regnai nel tempo più tremendo é rio / le grand ire dei Rè vinsi, e placai / ...
Incipit of the play (spoken by Negroni to Orsini; p. 1): Ho resoluto Orsini / Più consiglio non vo: se da me stesso / ...
Incipit of second work (p. 69): Già trema per la febbre il Gesuito / gli commove la bile il Lusitano / ...
Incipit of third work (p. 73): Padre Augusto dell Tebro, io più non credo / che di dolor si mora: un folle inganno / ...
Pagination: Paper, 42 leaves; [vi], 1-68, [69-80]; contemporary pagination in red ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Extensive rubrication used for headings, pagination, indications of speakers, stage directions, etc.
Binding: Contemporary paper boards. Cover worn. First quire slightly loose. Various stains and smudges.
Origin: Possibly written at Rome, 1775 (p. iii; Zacour-Hirsch). This appears to be a manuscript copy of the first printed edition (Rome, 1775).
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Giuseppino Fumagalli (inscription, p. i); from the Morbio Library.
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1957.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 109 (Ms. Italian 79).
Library of Congress. Music Division. Catalogue of opera librettos printed before 1800, prepared by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, chief of the division of music (Washington: Govt. Printing Office, 1914). The collection of Albert Schatz (1839-1910), purchased by the Library of Congress in 1908, forms the main part of this collection.
Publications about:
First printed edition: Roma: Per il Kracas all' Insegna del Silenzo, [1775]. Also published subsequently in various places.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 321
Contributor:
Sertor, Gaetano, approximately 1760-1805.
Morbio, Carlo, former owner.
OCLC:
155964321