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Canzoni antiche - Romano, Remigio
First [- fourth] collection of beautiful, modern musical songs by great authors in poetry and music, 1622
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[Venice], for Angelo Saluadori bookseller in S. Moise (In Vicenza, after Angelo Saluadori bookseller in Venice in S. Moise, 1622). In 12°, 130 x 80 mm. Brand on the title page of the wounded Dove on a sage twig, motto: Salvia salvat, some songs are accompanied by guitar tablature, rednesses. Bound with. Second collection of musical songs; beautiful for singing, & play, above modern air (!) . Vicenza, for Angelo Salvadori, 1620. On the frontispiece he labels a dove, with a wound from which a jet of blood flows, placed on an olive tree; landscape in the background, in an oval frame, motto: Salvia salvat, redness. Tied with. Third collection of beautiful Roman songs. To play and sing on the Spanish guitar, with its tablature. Vicenza, for Angelo Saluadori bookseller; in Venetia: to San Moise, 1622. Woodcut vignette on the title page, reddening.Bound with. New collection of beautiful musical and modern songs, by very serious authors in poetry and music. Venice, A. Salvadori, 1625. Printer's mark on the title page, tear with loss of some letters at the lower corner of the second leaf, redness. Green half leather binding from the 18th century with gold decorations on the spine and title in gold letters on a red gusset, red spray cuts.
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Rare volume that brings together a series of anthologies of popular songs, mainly Venetian, collected by Remigio Romano and published in different years mostly by the Vicenza printer Angelo Salvadori. In the dedicatory note to the Second Part, Salvadori speaks of "vague Canzonettes that daily emerge from the learned lyre of illustrious Poets, & are adapted to Music by the most excellent of this art."
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