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'''Cristoforo Ivanovich''' (called even "Cristoforo Giovannovi"; in [[Montenegrin language|montenegrin]]: Krsto Ivanović) was a [[Marinism|Marinist poet]] from the [[Venetian Albania]] of the [[Republic of Venice]]. |
'''Cristoforo Ivanovich''' (called even "Cristoforo Giovannovi"; in [[Montenegrin language|montenegrin]]: Krsto Ivanović) was a [[Marinism|Marinist poet]] from the [[Venetian Albania]] of the [[Republic of Venice]]. |
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Cristoforo Ivanovich (called even "Cristoforo Giovannovi"; in montenegrin: Krsto Ivanović) was a Marinist poet from the Venetian Albania of the Republic of Venice.
Life
Cristoforo was born in Budua (actual Montenegro) in 1618 and died in Venice in 1688. He was born from an old Dalmatian Italian family of the Cattaro region and wrote only in Italian.
In 1657 he moved to Venice -where he lived nearly all his life- working as secretary of Leonardo Pesaro, "Procuratore di San Marco". He did the catalogue of all the theater operas done in Venice from 1637 to 1687 in his work "Le memorie teatrali di Venezia".
His main works are two books of Italian poetry, written and published in Venice: “Poesie” and “Minerva a tavolino”. He wrote even compositions ("librettos") for theater, like: “Coriolano”, “Costanza trionfante”, “Lisimaco”, “L’amor guerriero” and “Circe”[1].
He was buried in Venice in the "Chiesa di San Mose", where he had been Canon of St. Mark's[2]
Works
He wrote "librettos" for Venice, Vienna and Piacenza theaters; he also adapted Moniglia’s Florentine extravaganza Ipermestra to Venetian taste as "La costanza trionfante". His exchange of letters with Pagliardi (Poesie, Venice, 1675) contains an interesting and rare description of that taste: ‘The character of this city likes the heroic to be serious but lively, the pathetic not excessively languid, and the comic full of vigour but easy-going’.
His principal contribution to musical theatre is a catalogue of Venetian opera performances from 1637 to 1681 (continued, in a second edition, to 1687), ‘Le memorie teatrali di Venezia’, published as an appendix to his Minerva al tavolino (Venice, 1681, 2/1688). Although it contains some inaccuracies, it is a valuable source of information about 17th-century operatic repertory and is the basis for all subsequent catalogues; it also contains an extensive discussion of contemporary theatre practice.
Librettos
L’amor guerriero (dramma per musica), P.A. Ziani, performed in 1663; La Circe (dramma per musica), Ziani, 1665 (D. Freschi, 1679); Coriolano (dramma), F. Cavalli, 1669; La costanza trionfante (dramma per musica), G.D. Partenio, 1673 (B. Pasquini, 1679, as Dov’è amore è pietà); Lisimaco (dramma per musica), G.M. Pagliardi, 1673; L’africano trionfo di Pompeo (dramma per musica), 1678 [unperf.]; La felicità regnante (serenata), 4 Sept 1681.
Excerpt
The following is an excerpt from his "Memorie teatrali di Venezia", chapter 2:[3]
L'estate.In questa calorosa estiva stagione continuano i freschi nel solito corso...Spesso girano il Canale (Grande) barcheggi armoniosi di bellissime serenate che allettano con l'isquisitezza delle voci un seguito d'infinite gondole... (Summer.In this hot summer season the refreshments continue in the same site...Often go around the "Canal Grande" huge nice boats with musical "serenates" that enjoy with exquisite voices a following set of infinite "gondole"...)
Notes
Bibliography
- M. Velimirovic: Cristoforo Ivanovich from Budva: the First Historian of the Venetian Opera (1967)
- T. Walker: Gli errori di “Minerva al tavolino”: osservazioni sulla cronologia delle prime opere veneziane, in Venezia e il melodramma nel Seicento, pp. 7-20 (Venezia, 1972)
- M. Milosevic: Il contributo di Cristoforo Ivanovich nell’evoluzione del melodramma seicentesco, in Il libro nel bacino adriatico (secc. XVI-XVIII), pp. 111-24 (Venezia, 1989)
- I. Cavallini: Questioni di poetica del melodramma del Seicento nelle lettere di Cristoforo Ivanovich, in Giovanni Legrenzi e la Cappella ducale di San Marco, pp. 185-99 (Venezia, 1990)
- N. Dubowy: Introduction to C. Ivanovich: Memorie teatrali di Venezia (Lucca, 1993)