Combattimento e balletto a cavallo : rappresentato di notte in Fiorenza à serenissimi arcidvchi, & arcidvchessa d'Avstria Ferdinando Carlo, Anna di Toscana, e Sigismondo Frances[co] : nel teatro contiguo al palazzo del serenissimo gran dvca

Rigogli, Benedetto, Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664. Nave del Colombo. CMalG · 1652 · In Fiorenza : Nella stamperia di S.A.S. alla Condotta · 2 pictures

A 1652 Florentine festival book printed at the Stamperia di S.A.S. alla Condotta, describing a night equestrian combat and ballet staged in a theatre near the Pitti palace for visiting Archdukes Ferdinand Charles, Anna of Tuscany and Sigismund Francis of Austria. The first picture is a decorative printed ornament of a mask flanked by scrolls, while the second shows a crowded oval arena with a ship at its centre, a plan a designer could borrow for dense crowd staging or a central focal object within a circle of spectators.

Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, 1628-1662 · Anna, Archduchess, consort of Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, 1616-1676 · Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria, 1630-1665 · Festivals · Horse ballet · Visits of state

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