Rime e prose
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Rime e prose
- Jaar:
- 1719
- URL:
- https://books.google.be/books?id=NSPB3K6FzvgC Google Books
- Onderwerp:
- 18th Century (1701-1800)
Poetry
Libretto
Oratorio
Cantata
Literature
Organology
Natural science
History
Correspondence
Venice (Italy) - Taal:
- Meerdere talen
- Uitgever:
- Venice Coleti 1719
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.KTS1 C3.16 15D19 (Orpheus Instituut)ORPH.KTS1 C3.16 15D19 (Orpheus Instituut)
- Paginering:
- [viii]-316 pages leather bound, gilded embossed spine (damaged), colored gilded endpapers, engraved title page, marbled edges, folded page
- Editie:
- 1st ed.
- Nota:
- An interesting collection of pieces by polymath Maffei.
The first part devoted to poetry includes a section headed 'Poesie Musicali' in which there are two libretti for oratorios and several cantate for 3, 2 or solo voices.
The Prose section reprints several articles which had appeared in the 'Giornale de'Letterati d'Italia' of which Maffei had been one of the founders. One of these is his famous account of the new instrument invented by Bartolomo Cristoforo which is acknowledged as 'the first pianoforte' (p.309-315: Descrizione d'un Gravicembalo col piano, e forte; Aggiunte alcune considerazioni sopra gli strumenti musicali); a plate shows the mechanism.
A letter to Vallisnieri discusses the formation of lightning. He draws on his own experience during a storm in the Appennines which helped form his theories which he acknowledges to be unorthodox. - Permalink:
- https://www.cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000003539