English: The opening prologo from Orazio Vecchi's madrigal comedy L'Amfiparnaso, from the libretto printed in Venice in 1597. The woodcut image shows actor delivering the prologue on the stage with the audience looking on. This is a crop of the source image to focus on the view of the stage
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Woodcut of an actor delivering the prologue of Orazio Vecchi's L'Amfiparnaso, Venice 1597
Xilografia di un attore che recita il prologo di L'Amfiparnaso, Venezia 1597
Gravure sur bois d'un acteur livrant le prologue de L'Amfiparnaso, Venise 1597