Inventing the opera house : theater architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy /
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Author / Creator: | Johnson, Eugene J., 1937- author. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018 |
Description: | xviii, 330 pages ; 27 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11592660 |
Table of Contents:
- Ferrara and Mantua, 1486-1519
- Rome 1480's-1520
- Early theaters in Venice and the Veneto
- Sixteenth century Florence, with excursions to Venice, Lyon and Siena
- Early permanent theaters and the commedia dell'arte
- Theaters in the ancient manner and Andrea Palladio
- Drama-tourney theaters
- Ferrara, Parma, Pesaro, and theaters of Giovanni Battista Aleotti
- Seventeenth century theaters in Venice: the invention of the opera house
- Seventeenth century theaters for comedy and opera
- Teatro di Tordinona in Rome, Queen Christina of Sweden, and Carlo Fontana.