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Venice, from the Alvisopoli typography, 1828

Col. HI 17

The operetta was printed by Bartolomeo Gamba, to whose library it belongs, in only two copies on parchment, one of which is the present and the other merged into the "Trivulzio Library of Milan". In 1810, the Venetian nobleman Alvise Mocenigo had purchased a small printing press in the town of Alvisopoli, in the Portogruaro district, which he transferred to Venice in 1814, keeping its name and entrusting the management to Gamba. Thus he transformed it into the main Venetian printing house of the Restoration years, avoiding commissioned works and printing erudite works contrary to new ideas. Gamba maintained its direction, despite the commitments undertaken since 1824 as librarian of the Marciana Library, until 1836, when he handed it over to his son Francesco.