Abstract

The dataset contains the primary sources at the core of the Horizon 2020 ANIMATE project, namely the 12 albums created by Giovanni Tommaso Borgonio for spectacles performed at the Savoy court of Christine of France between 1640 and 1660. The 8 albums held at the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino are included in the dataset as .pdf format files (these albums have been digitised and are available free of charge as .pdf files in low resolution on the "Internet Culturale" portal, https://www.internetculturale.it/). Due to copyright restrictions, the 3 albums held at the Biblioteca Reale di Torino and the 1 held in a private collection are not preserved and made available in the dataset as .pdf. As an alternative, a bibliography of these four albums is provided with detailed information in tabular form (i.e. typology of the performance, author, title, place, date, author of the album, location of the album, call number, number of sheets, language, date of the album, extant printed report, extant sheet music). This .cvs file also contains the bibliographic details of the 8 albums held in at the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino. The dataset contains also a .cvs with the information regarding the sources (i.e. 17th-century account books) examined at the Archivio di Stato di Torino (location, section, archival fonds, header, volumes, dates, subject of the information) and a .cvs with the information regarding the sources (i.e. 17th-century printed reports for festivals staged across the Duchy of Savoy) examined at the Archivio Storico di Stato della Città di Torino (location. collection, box, date and place, title).