L'Ermiona del sr. marchese Pio Enea Obizzi
Subtitle: per introduzione d'vn torneo à piedi, & à cauallo : e d'vn balletto rappresentato in musica nella citta di Padoua l'anno M.DC.XXXVI ...
By: descritta dal s. Nicolò Enea Bartolini ...
Publisher: Per Paolo Frambotto
Published: 1638
Place of publication: In Padoua
Language: ita
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Ballet; Early works to 1800; Festivals; Medieval Tournaments; History
Notes: In verse, with Bartolini's prose description of the ballet and tournament interspersed throughout.

Two issues are known. The first issue has no errata. In the second issue, leaf O4 (p. 111-112) is a cancel with reset text and errata list at foot of p. 112.

Signatures: [cross]⁴ ([cross]1 engraved, [cross]4 blank) A-O⁴ ([cross]2 signed [cross]).

Engraved title-page printed from two separate plates: an allegorical border and central oval title panel.

The unsigned plates reproduce the stage designs of Alfonso Chenda. The first plate is printed from a single engraved plate. Plates [2]-[15] are each printed from two separate engraved plates: a proscenium border (from plate [1]), and an inset stage design.

Each text page within border of type ornaments.

Cast list: p. [6] (1st count).

Without the music by G.F. Sances.

Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung, 4115.

From the collection of Edwin Binney 3rd.

Second issue, with the errata on page 112.

Bound in 19th-century half red cloth and marbled boards (spine faded); plates mounted on guards and bound at end, some repaired tears, lacking the blank leaf.