Nvove inventioni di balli, opera vaghissima nella quale si danno i giusti modi del ben portar la vita, et di accommodarsi con ogni leggiadria di mouimento alle creanze et gratie d'amore
Subtitle: Conueneuoli a tutti i cavalieri, & dame, per ogni sorte di ballo, balletto, & brando d'Italia, di Spagna & di Francia. Con figure ... in rame et regole della musica et intauolatura quali si richieggono al suono et al canto. Divisa in tre trattati ...
Series: Italian books 1601-1700
Publisher: G. Bordone
Published: 1604
Place of publication: Milano
Language: ita
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Dance; Early works to 1800; Lute music; Court dancing; Handbooks, manuals; Dance music
Description: Originally published as Le gratie d'amore in 1602, this manual is considered one of the most valuable and diverse primary sources on Italian court dance. Divided into three parts, the first part illuminates the career and students of dancing master Cesare Negri (ca. 1536-ca. 1604; also known as Il Trombone); the second is devoted to the era's most virtuosic dance type, the galliard; and the third section details a wide repertory of additional steps utilized in the treatise's forty-three choreographies. Many of the choreographies are preceded by full-page illustrations and each dance is provided with appropriate music written in Italian lute tablature and/or mensural notation.
Notes: Running title: Le gratie d'amore, the title under which the work was first published in 1602.

Includes lute tablatures for some of the dances.

Earlier state (?) of engraving on p. 256 inserted between p. 202 and [203].

The engravings are by Leone Pallavicini after designs by G.M. della Rovere.

Stamped: Capvccinorvm conceptionis Neapolis Bibliothecae (stamp)

Printing shows-through.

Bad Presswork.

Pages 214-211 bound together.