Abstract

The dataset contains the bibliographic information related to the corpus of documents used to analyze four ballets staged across the Savoy Duchy between 1645 and 1660 and documented at the time by Giovanni Tommaso Borgonio. The four ballets are: “Il Dono del Re de l’Alpi”, “Il Tabacco”, “La Primavera trionfante sull’Inverno”, “L’Unione per la peregrina Margherita”. The analysis was conducted in the framework of Horizon 2020 ANIMATE project. The results of the analysis are presented in the following publication: “Nature, Commodities, and Bodies in Baroque Ballets across the Savoy State: Choreographies of Transmutation and Consumption”, 35th CIHA World Congress “Motion: Migrations” Conference Proceedings (São Paulo: Vasto 2023) 665-681.