Le origini dell'Opera a Milano (1598-1649)

"This volume has been very well produced, with excellent reproductions, by the publishers as part of a new series, and Daolmi's book sets a very high standard indeed for the successive volumes yet to appear." (Robert L. Kendrick, in: Il Saggiatore Musicale, VII, 2000, n°1, p.218-219) "The documentation presented by Daolmi is staggering in variety and scope and includes maps of the city, designs of the various palace theaters, paintings and engravings of apparati for civic spectacles, portraits of the famous comici, segments from contemporary treatises and seicentini, and archival documents (...)" (Christine Getz, in: Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 12, no. 1)