This spring the first appointment with Books at San Giorgio is on 12 April when the volume Giambattista Crosato. Pittore del Rococò europeo will be launched. The Rococo artist Crosato (1697-1758) was active in Venice and Piedmont as a painter, fresco artist and stage designer. On the European scene he had a very distinctive personal style that was an alternative to the models established by Giambattista Tiepolo. The book also includes the catalogue of his paintings.

On 19 April the focus will be on music and the first volumes in the new critical edition of Vivaldi’s music for theatre. Published by Ricordi editore, the series entitled “The Critical Edition of the works of Antonio Vivaldi” will include the scores for the serenades and dramas set to music by Vivaldi which have come down to us intact. The critical texts accompanying each volume include a long introduction and critical apparatus
recording all the variations in the tradition. Two works have already been published: the Serenata a 3, RV 690, edited by Alessandro Borin, and La fi da ninfa, RV 714, edited by Marco Bizzarini and Alessandro Borin.
On 22 April, lastly, the two latest issues of Studi Veneziani will be presented. Edited by the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society, Studi Veneziani is divided into three sections, “Studies”, “Notes and Documents”, and “Reviews”. The magazine is an authoritative reference point because it publishes essays with a strongly interpretive spirit and results from in-depth documentary research, while also carefully monitoring the cons tant fl ow of new books directly and indirectly concerning the history of the Serenissima.