Rosamunda in Ravenna.
[BANDETTINI, Teresa]. ROSMUNDA IN RAVENNA Tragedia di Amarilli Etrusca. Lucca, dalla Ducal Tipografia Bertini, MDCCCXXCII [ 1827]. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. (viii), 82; some light spotting in places, but generally a clean copy, uncut in the original printed wrappers; some marking and staining to covers, and small tear to foot of upper wrapper.
Rare first edition of this tragedy by the Lucca dancer, poet, and playwright Teresa Bandettini. Little performed in the present form, Rosmunda was the inspiration for an opera of the same name by Giuseppe Lillo, which premiered in 1837, with an libretto by Bandettini's fellow Lucchese Luisa Amalia Paladini.
Bandettini (1763-1837), was born in Lucca, and entered into the Arcadia under the name Amarilli Etrusca. A noted critic of the romantic movement, she was one of most important improvisatory poets of her time, greatly esteemed by the likes of Mascheroni, Bettinelli and Alfieri. OCLC records no copies outside continental Europe.
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