Pietro Della Valle (M / Italy, 1586-1652), scholar

Pietro Della Valle (1586-1652) was an Italian scholar, composer and playwright. From 1614 to 1626 traveled extensively in the Near East and brought back a copy of the Samaritan Pentateuch. Its 6,000 variants from the Masoretic text posed new questions of Biblical philology. He also composed some of the earliest forms of oratorio.

• Travelers -- Composers -- Oratorios
• Early Samaritan Studies -- Music -- Italian language

Works

Books

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Sacred dialogues (oratorios)

• Dialogo di Esther (Esther / 1640 Della Valle), sacred dialogue

• Dialogo della Purificazione (Presentation of Jesus at the Temple / 1640 Della Valle), sacred dialogue

Biography

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