Facsimiles of 5 17th and 18th century opera librettos.
Italian texts; 4th work in English and Italian on facing pages.
4th work "revised as L'Idaspe fedele, or, in English, Hydaspes ... 1710"-table of contents.
"Selected and arranged by Howard Mayer Brown"--series t.p.
L'Adelaide / librettist, Pietro Dolfino ; composer, Antonio Sartorio -- Adriano in Siria / librettist, Pietro Metastasio ; composer, Gian Francesco de Maio -- Alessandro Severo / librettist, Apostolo Zeno ; composer Antonio Lotti -- Gl'amanti generosi / librettist Giovanni Pietro Candi ; composer, Francesco Mancini -- L'amazzone corsara, overo l'Avilda regina de Goti / librettist, Giulio Cesare Corradi ; composer, Carlo Pallavicino