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GHERARDI, Evariste. Le Théâtre Italien de Gherardi, ou Le Recueil Général de toutes le Comédies and Scènes Françoises jouées par les Comédiens Italiens du Roy. 1717.
GHERARDI, Evariste.
Le Théâtre Italien de Gherardi, ou Le Recueil Général de toutes le Comédies and Scènes Françoises jouées par les Comédiens Italiens du Roy.
Paris, Pierre Witte, 1717.
Six 12mo (165x95 mm), (22)-500 pages, portrait en frontispice, 13 gravures et 8 pages de partitions / (4)-417 pages et 10 gravures / (2)-507 pages, 9 gravures et 6 pages de partitions / (4)-456 pages, 10 gravures et 36 pages de partitions / (4)-429 pages, 10 gravures et 24 pages de partitions / (4)-544 pages, 9 gravures et 24 pages de partitions. La plupart des gravures sont inclues dans la pagination. binding : Contemporary full calf, spine with six compartments. Caps worn. Binding rubbed (specially on spines). Wormholes on volume I (minimal loss of text). Some foxings and waterstains.
The Italian Comedy or Italian Theater was the competing theater troupe of the French Comedy (born from the merger of Molière's troupe and that of the Hotel de Bourgogne) at the end of the 17th century.
His repertoire, assembled here by Evariste Gherardi, was inspired by both characters from the Commedia dell'arte and French authors. I
t was dissolved in 1697 following the announcement of the False Prude (who attacked Maintenon) then returned to Paris under the Regency in 1716.
Price : 600 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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