“Un ingenere mantovano”: La Galatea Warsaw Staging (1628)
in the Light of Documents in the Italian Archives
“Un ingenere mantovano”: La Galatea Warsaw Staging (1628)
in the Light of Documents in the Italian Archives
Author(s): Carlo ToglianiSubject(s): History, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Social history
Published by: Arx Regia® Wydawnictwo Zamku Królewskiego w Warszawie – Muzeum
Keywords: Baroque theatre; Mantua; Warsaw; Nicolò Sebregondi; Guglielmo Viani; Alfonso Amorotto Andreasi; Annibale Gonzaga; Sigismund III Vasa; Ladislas IV Vasa; Giovan Battista Bertazzolo; Gabriele Bertazzolo;
Summary/Abstract: Some documents in the State Archives of Mantua provide new information about the identity of the “ingegnere mantovano,” who was the scenographer of the first dramma in musica in Poland, i.e., the staging of La Galatea in Warsaw in 1628. He was not the engineer Giovan Battista Bertazzolo, as it has been believed until now, but probably the architect Nicolò Sebregondi, assisted by the painter Guglielmo Viani, both employed in Mantua, whose presence in Central Europe is documented after the deaths of the dukes Ferdinando and Vincenzo II Gonzaga.
Journal: Kronika Zamkowa. Roczniki
- Issue Year: 8/2021
- Issue No: 8
- Page Range: 141-160
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English