Le stelle combattvte dagli elementi
Subtitle: torneo rapresentato in Ferrara da diversi cavalieri per ossequiare il merito infinito dell'emin.mo e reu.mo prencipe il sig. cardinale Sigismondo Chigi, loro dignissimo legato : nel tempo, che si fecero le nozze frà la signora Beatrice Bentivogli e sig. conte Ercole Pepoli
Contributors: Pasetti, Carlo, fl. 1639-1695; Ferrari, Francesco, 1634-1708
Publisher: Per gli heredi di Giulio Bulzoni Giglio
Published: 1676
Place of publication: In Ferrara
Language: ita
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Social life and customs; Carnival; Stage-setting and scenery; Early works to 1800; Theaters; Marriage; Medieval Tournaments; Pageants; Festivals; Teatro degli Obizzi (Ferrara, Italy)
Other titles: Stelle combattute dagli elementi
Notes: The first two and the last three pages are blank.

Partly in verse.

Woodcut title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Illustrations: allegorical frontispiece engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (signed: GM Mitelli I.F.) and six folded engraved plates depicting scenes of the pageant, called "comparse", with captions referring to "Carnouale 1676". The plates are signed: Sig:r Carlo Pasetti Archi., Fran.co Ferrari Delin., GM. Mitelli Fe.

The event was held at the "Teatro de Signori Marchesi Obbizi" (p. 4). The captions identify the most prominent participants, many of them well known amateur stage directors and actors of Ferrara, including Roberto degli Obizzi who initiated the restauration of the antique theatre degli Intrepidi, also known as Teatro degli Obizzi (or di S. Lorenzo), Count Ippolito Bentivogli, a librettist and amateur actor at Teatro in Cortile (or della Capella o Bentivoglio), or Count Pinamonte Bonacossi who initiated the Teatro Bonacossi (or di S. Stefano). The stage designer Niccolò Estense Tassoni is also mentioned.

Enciclopedia dello spettacolo, p. 182-183

Binding: library's copy is bound in original plain wrapper.