biography
pronunciation:
[zaynoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1668–1750)
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| biography:
| Scholar, born in Venice, Veneto, NE Italy. He was one of the founders of the classicist Accademia degli Amici and of the Giornale dei letterati d'Italia (The Italian Scholars' Journal) and in 1718 was made court poet in Vienna by Charles VI. He wrote oratorios but was renowned for his librettos (for Scarlatti, Vivaldi, and Händel, among others), and produced melodramas in the style of the Arcadia, such as Merope (1711), Andromaca (1718), and Semiramide (1725). |
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