Che pena tiranna ... Aria Con V:V: è Viola. Copyist musical manuscript

by Leonardo Leo

$400 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Quarto 212 x 272 . Notated in black ink on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper. 11, i blank pp. Watermark indecipherable.For soprano voice, strings, and figured basso continuo. Marked smaniosom, which Florio 1611 translates as ragingly passionate. Occasional minor soiling and small stains, mainly to blank lower margin. From Leo's opera Scipione nelle Spagne, to a libretto by Apostolo Zeno, first performed in Milan at the

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