La Dafne
By: d'Ottavio Rinuccini ; rappresentata alla sereniss. gran duchessa di Toscana dal signor Iacopo Corsi
Publisher: Appresso Giorgio Marescotti
Published: 1600
Place of publication: In Firenze
Language: ita
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Dafne
Notes: Medici arms on t.p.; printer's mark on p. [24] (p. [23] blank).

Signatures : A-C⁴.

Reissued in 1604 with cancel t.p.

This libretto was set to music by Jacopo Peri, Jacopo Corsi and Giulio Caccini, but fragments of the Corsi setting are all that are extant; performed at the Palazzo Corsi for carneval, 1597.

"Del [i.e. Al] s. Jacopo Corsi" (poem by Rinuccini): p. [20]-[21]

Gamba, B. Testi di Lingua, 843.

Razzolini, L. Testi di Lingua, 296.

Poggiali, D. Serie de' Testi di Lingua I, 585.

Grove, Dict. of music IV, p. 108.

Sonneck, O. Catalogue of opera librettos I, p. 339ff.

Sartori, C. Libretti, 7015

Gift of Ruth N. and John M. Ward; from the Richard MacNutt collection.

C2 verso corrected in ink to read "Al S. Iacopo Corso.

Bound in modern half calf and decorated paper boards.