Unio sexaginta elegantiarum
- First performance: June 1725, Prague – New Town, rhetoric
- Author: Joannes Pelletius, SJ (1695–1754)
The melodrama A Pearl of Sixty Beauties refers to the canonization, which it preceded by four years. John is compared to a precious pearl and the Czech lands are trying to get him fitted in the papal ring – i.e. canonized. More info in Czech
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[Joannes Pelletius]: Unio sexaginta elegantiarum Paraquariam nactus Nepomuci, istum
olim Wenceslaus Piger in Albim et Moldavam projecit, pia Bohemia in sacrarium Beati Viti
conjecit, eundem subinde decurente anno jubilaeo coronatus Bohemorum leo annulo
Piscatoris inserendum in Urbe Romana proposuit. Super Unione hoc melodrama offerendum
patrio spectatori composuit et pro theatro exposuit academica rhetorica gymnasii
Societatis Jesu Neo-Pragae 1725, mense Junio, die …
National
Library CR, sign. sign. 52 A 40, adl. 32
Digital copy
Kateřina Bobková-Valentová – Alena Bočková – Magdaléna Jacková – Martin Bažil – Eva Pauerová – Jan Zdichynec – Zdeněk Žalud: Sv. Jan Nepomucký na jezuitských školních scénách. Praha: Academia, 2015. (= Theatrum Neolatinum. Latinské divadlo v českých zemích, 1.), p. 484-493.
