biography
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Metastasio, Pietro
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originally Pietro Armando Dominico Trapassi
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pronunciation:
[metastahzioh]
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| lived:
| (1698–1782)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Rome, Italy. A gift for versifying attracted the attention of Fian Vincenzo Gravin, a man of letters who educated him, and left him his fortune (1718). He gained his reputation by his masque The Garden of Hesperides (1722), wrote the libretti for 27 operas, including Mozart's Clemenza di Tito, and became court poet at Vienna in 1729. |
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