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Title

Il Conclave dell 1774 :

Authors

• Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782
• Sertor, Gaetano

Other related names

• Morbio, Carlo, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 321
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580922
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580922

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1775

Place

Rome?

Summary

Play in three acts about the conclave of cardinals selecting a successor to Pope Clement XIV, who died in 1774 (p. i-68). Text of play preceded by a sonnet on the death of Clement XIV (p. ii). Play followed by two short works: "Nell' iminente sopressione de Gesuiti. Sonetto" (p. 69-70); and "Scusa dell'Abbate Sertor, ritenuto in carcere, come creduto autore del dramma, Il conclave; al Sommo Pontefice Pio Sesto" (p. 71-78).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. iii).
   
• Attribution from p. v: "La poesia e del celebre Sig. Ab.e. Metastasio in gran parte. La musica del Sig.e. Nicolò Piscini." However, this attribution to Metastasio does not seem entirely certain; it has also been attributed to Abbate Gaetano Sertor (p. 73-78). "Attributed by [Albert] Schatz to abbate Sertori [sic] ... [who] simply used the two names then most in vogue." The music does not appear ever to have been actually composed nor the work ever performed. (Sonneck, Cat. of opera librettos.).
   
• Incipit of prefatory sonnet (p. ii): Regnai nel tempo più tremendo é rio / le grand ire dei Rè vinsi, e placai / ...
   
• Incipit of the play (spoken by Negroni to Orsini; p. 1): Ho resoluto Orsini / Più consiglio non vo: se da me stesso / ...
   
• Incipit of second work (p. 69): Già trema per la febbre il Gesuito / gli commove la bile il Lusitano / ...
   
• Incipit of third work (p. 73): Padre Augusto dell Tebro, io più non credo / che di dolor si mora: un folle inganno / ...
   

Extent

42 leaves : 298 x 200 (250 x 150) mm. bound to 310 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, 42 leaves; [vi], 1-68, [69-80]; contemporary pagination in red ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary paper boards. Cover worn. First quire slightly loose. Various stains and smudges.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Giuseppino Fumagalli (inscription, p. i); from the Morbio Library.
   
• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1957.
   

Subjects topical

• Jesuits--History--18th century
• Jesuits--In literature
• Italian drama--18th century
• Italian literature--18th century
• Italian poetry--18th century
• Popes--Election--Poetry

Genres

• Codices
• Plays
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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