numeros

Updated: April 10, 2026

In the first edition, "dei codici chigiano e Riccardiano," the next scene introduces Orpheus, who sings a song with Latin text beginning thus: "O meos longum modulata lusus Quos amor primam docuit juventam, Flecte nunc mecum numeros novumque Dic, lyra, carmen."

W. J. (William James) Henderson - Some Forerunners of Italian Opera