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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pietro Metastasio - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10234a.htm

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Italian poet, b. at Rome, 1698; d. at Vienna, 1782. Of humble origins, his father, once a Papal soldier, was later a pork-butcher; Metastasio was placed in the shop of a goldsmith to learn his craft. By some chance he attracted the attention of the jurisconsult and littérateur, Vincenzo Gravina, who took him in charge, and Græcizing his name of Trapassi, into the synonymous Metastasio, gave him a solid education.

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Baroque Music - Composers - English
URL: http://baroque-music.com/frames/info/metastasio.shtml

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Pietro Metastasio 1698-1782). Italian poet, whose librettos dominated 18th-century opera. Born in Rome and originally named Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi, he was educated in law and the classics by a wealthy patron and studied music under the Italian opera composer Nicola Porpora. His first libretto, Didone abbandonata (Dido Abandoned, 1724), established his fame in Italy, and in 1730 he went to Vienna as court poet.

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Pietro Metastasio - 18th Century Italian poet and librettist - English
URL: http://www.metastasio.co.uk/

Libretti Cantatas Canzonets Arias Sonnets Epistles Musical Strophes

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Metastasio - English
URL: http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/m/metastasio/

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Pietro Metastasio (P. Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi) (1698-1782) Song Texts

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Metastasio home page - English
URL: http://publish.uwo.ca/~metastas/

Metastasio Workslist. Listed Alphabetically. Listed Chronologically. Metastasio Editions. Text Incipits of Metastasio's Lyrical Stanzas.

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Liber Liber: Biblioteca & Autori M & Metastasio, Pietro (alias Pietro Trapassi) - Italian
URL: http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/m/metastasio/

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Pietro Trapassi (grecizzato in Metastasio) nacque a Roma nel 1698 da una modesta famiglia borghese. Il suo precoce talento poetico fu notato dal Gravina che lo istruì nelle materie classiche, istruzione in seguito arricchita dagli studi filosofici intrapresi sotto la guida del cartesiano Gregorio Caloprese.

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Metastasio - English
URL: http://www.theatrehistory.com/italian/metastasio.html

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A biographical note on Italian poet and dramatist Metastasio. Born at Rome, on the third day of January, 1698, Metastasio was apprenticed to the trade of a goldsmith, educated by a friend of the family, the jurist Gravina, who, appreciating his fine talents, took him into his own household, changing his name from Trapassi to the Greek translation of the same word, Metastasio, as more refined.

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ÀÂÑÒÐÈß - Russian
URL: http://www.krugosvet.ru/articles/61/1006117/1006117a16.htm

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