La liberazione di Rvggiero dall'isola d'Alcina
Subtitle: balletto rapp.ta in musica al ser.mo Ladislao Sigismondo principe di Polonia e di Suezia nella villa imp.le della sereniss.ma arcid.ssa d'Austria gran duch.sa di Toscana
By: del sig.r Ferdinando Saracinelli Bali di Volterra
Contributors: Saracinelli, Ferdinando, -1640, librettist; Parigi, Alfonso, -1656, ill; Cecconcelli, Pietro, printer; Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Per Pietro Cecconcelli ... alle stelle Medicee
Published: 1625
Place of publication: Firenze]
Language: ita
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Ballets; Librettos; Operas; Horse ballet
Other titles: Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina; Liberazione di Ruggiero (Choreographic work : Saracinelli)
Work titles: Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina
Notes: Equestrian ballet, the libretto by Saracinelli based on a plot drawn from Ariosto's Orlando furioso; without the music by Francesca Caccini. Cf. New Grove online.

There are two eds. with the 1625 Cecconcelli imprint. Both share the same engraved t.p. and plates, but one has 45 p. and the other has 36 p. of letterpress text.

The engraved plates by A. Parigi (after his father Giulio Parigi's set designs) depict the villa of the grand duchess of Tuscany and four of the stage sets.

Title within illustrated border; head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Engraved allegorical t.p.; letterpress text.