Cifra
Holding Institution
Hispanic Society Museum & LibraryCall Number
PQ4688.D3 C54Title Page
La cifra :opera jocosa en dos actos /
arreglada del teatro italiano al español. Por don Luciano Francisco Comella. ; Executada por la Compañia del señor Luis Navarro.
Caption Title
Opera jocosa en dos actosImprint
Madrid : MDCCXCIX. La oficina de don Antonio y don Josef Cruzado. Calle del Prado, donde se hallará., [1799]Language(s) of text
SpanishLanguage(s) of original
ItalianTitle In Original Language
CifraPhysical Description
28 pages ; 21 cm (4to)Signatures
Signatures: A-C⁴ D²General Notes
Work is a translation of Da Ponte's libretto to the opera by Salieri, itself an adaptation of the libretto by Petrosellini for Salieri's intermezzo, La dama pastorella.Full title page.
Printer's mark on title page.
Cast list identifies actors, page [2].
Bookseller's advertisement, page 28: Donde esta se hallaran las piezas siguientes. [13 titles follow.] Asimismo se hallará un gran surtido de Comedias antiguas, Tragedias y Comedias modernas. Autos, Saynetes y Entremeses.
Citation Reference
Szmuk, S.E. "A Descriptive Catalog of a Collection of Comedias Sueltas in the Hispanic Society of America." Dissertation, City University of New York, 1985, no. 091.Vindel, F. Escudos y marcas de impresores y libreros en España durante los siglos XV a XIX, no. 706.
Grove Music Online,s.v. Cifra, La.https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O005641
Source of acquisition
PurchaseHiersemann catalog 411, no. 71
1912.
Local Notes
No. 17 of 18, in vol. 6 of a 26-volume set of plays by various authors.Quarter-bound in maroon cloth and mottled paper, with binder's title: COMEDIAS DE COMELLA SIN FECHA.
Subject/Genre/Themes
Italian drama--Translations into Spanish.--18th century.Genre/Form data
rbpri--Printers' devices.rbgenr--Cast lists.
rbgenr--Booksellers' advertisements.
rbprov--NNH--Sammelbands.
Added Entries
Salieri, Antonio, 1750-1825 (added author)Petrosellini, Giuseppe (added author)
Compañía de Luis Navarro (acting company)