Fabritio Caroso was dancing master to some of the greatest princely families of Italy, and Nobilt??? di dame , his sumptuous collection of ballroom dances and their music, reflects an age that believed that the person of high rank should be a work of art, uniting strength and beauty. Caroso's detailed instructions (including rules for steps, style and etiquetter, and forty-eight actual choreographies) are unequalled by any contemporary manual in their specificity and clarity. Most dances are preceeded by an engraving ...
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Fabritio Caroso was dancing master to some of the greatest princely families of Italy, and Nobilt??? di dame , his sumptuous collection of ballroom dances and their music, reflects an age that believed that the person of high rank should be a work of art, uniting strength and beauty. Caroso's detailed instructions (including rules for steps, style and etiquetter, and forty-eight actual choreographies) are unequalled by any contemporary manual in their specificity and clarity. Most dances are preceeded by an engraving showing the opening position and illustrating many aspects of dress, posture, and gesture. A full scholarly apparatus, giving new information unavailable elsewhere, makes the book even more valuable to dancers and to students of dance and music at the junction of the Renaissance and Baroque eras.
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Good jacket. Good in Good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some scuffs and creases. Pages have slight age toning and mild staining. Overall, gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. VG/VG, hc, black marker mark on front pastedown endpaper, tiny red pen marks on many pages, DJ has very slight edgewear, binding strong. 362pp.