Comedias Sueltas Database ID#

40083

Call Number

PQ6217.A2 C664 v.6/n.9

Title Page

El matrimonio secreto. :

Drama en musica. En dos actos. /

Traducido libremente del italiano al español por don Luciano Francisco Comella.

Caption Title

Drama en musica en dos actos

Imprint

[Madrid] : En la Librería de Cerro, calle de Cedaceros, y en su Puesto, calle de Alcalá, se hallará ésta con la Coleccion de las nuevas, á dos reales sueltas; en tomos enquadernados en pasta á veinte reales cada uno, en pergamino á diez y seis, y á la rústica á quince, y por docenas con la mayor equidad., [between 1795 and 1798]

Language(s) of text

Spanish

Language(s) of original

Italian

Title In Original Language

Matrimonio segreto

Physical Description

28 pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Signatures

Signatures: A-C⁴ D²

General Notes

Catchwords: A4v: la ; B4v: Sa- [should be Pero] ; C4v: Cond.
Work is based on Bertati's libretto for Cimarosa's dramma giocoso (1792), itself based on George Colman the Elder and David Garrick's The Clandestine Marriage (1766).
Publication date based on premiere (1795), according to Herrera Navarro, and bookseller's period at this address (1790-98), according to BnF authority record.
Cast list identifies actors, page [1].
Bookseller's advertisement in colophon, with prices.
Bookseller's advertisement with list of titles, pages 27-28.

Citation Reference

Szmuk, S.E. "A Descriptive Catalog of a Collection of Comedias Sueltas in the Hispanic Society of America." Dissertation, City University of New York, 1985, no. 287.
Grove Music Online,s.v. Matrimonio segreto.https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O008882
Herrera Navarro, J. Catálogo de autores españoles del siglo XVIII, p. 116.

Source of acquisition

Purchase
Hiersemann catalog 411, n. 71
1912.

Local Notes

No. 9 of 18, in vol. 6 of a 26-volume set of plays by various authors.
Quarter-bound in maroon cloth and mottled paper, with binder's title: COMEDIAS DE COMELLA SIN FECHA.

Subject/Genre/Themes

Spanish drama--18th century.

Genre/Form data

rbgenr--Cast lists.
rbgenr--Booksellers' advertisements.
rbprov--NNH--Sammelbands.

Added Entries

Cimarosa, Domenico (added author)
Comella, Luciano Francisco, 1751-1812 (translator)
Cerro, Manuel del (distributor)