La magnifica et trivmphale entrata del Christianiss. re di Francia Henrico secondo di questo nome fatta nella nobile & antiqua Città di Lyone à luy & à la sua serenissima consorte Chaterina alli 21. di septemb. 1548
Subtitle: colla particulare descritione della commedia che fece recitare la Natione Fiorentina a richiesta di sua Maesta Christianissima
Contributors: Taillemont, Claude de, 1526 or 1527-; Salomon, Bernard, approximately 1506-approximately 1561; Dovizi, Bernardo, da Bibbiena, 1470-1520
Publisher: Apresso Gulielmo Rouillio
Published: 1549
Place of publication: In Lyone
Language: ita
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Visits of state; Early works to 1800; Pageants; Ceremonial entries; Festivals; Regattas; Social life and customs; Triumphal arches; Manners and customs
Other titles: Magnifica et triumphale entrata del Christianiss. re di Francia Henrico secondo
Work titles: Magnificence de la superbe et triomphante entree
Notes: Text written by M. Scève in collaboration with C. de Taillemont. Woodcuts are attributed to B. Salomon. Cf. Vinet; Mortimer.

Translation of: La magnificence de la superbe et triomphante entree ..., also published by Rouille in 1549, but with the addition of a description of a comedy performed by a Florentine company. Date of the event varies between eds.: Sept. 21, Italian, Sept. 23, French.

Includes selections from "La Calandria" by Bernardo Dovizzi da Bibiena (s.f. Enciclopedia dello spettacolo) and detailed description of scenographies designed by Andrea Nannoccio (M2), the music was composed by Piero Mannucci (P1 v).

Signatures: A-O⁴P².

Printer's device on t.p., initials, head and tail pieces, italic face.

Illustrations: fifteen woodcuts depicting figures and costumes of the procession's leaders, an obelisk, columns, several triumphal arches, a perspective scenography representing a piazza, and other temporary architecture, as well as the two flagships that headed the staging of a naval battle and the immense barge where the king was helped with a banquet.

Vinet, E. Bibl. des beaux-arts, 470

Mortimer, R. French 16th cent., 201

Murray, C.F., French books, 151

Brunet, II, columns 996-997

Enciclopedia dello spettacolo, v.6, p.1524

Cicognara, 1371