A commemorative programme published by the BBC to mark a performance in six parts of the Renaissance Intermedi, a musical art form fostered under the patronage of the Medici family and regarded as the pre-cursor to modern-day opera.  Included alongside the Italian libretti and their English translations are essays regarding its origins and development plus colour reproductions of some of the surviving elaborate set designs.  Large format paperback.  32 pages.  In very good clean condition. Cat No 4580