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1698–1782 Italy
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (January 3, 1698 – April 12, 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.
Also known as: Metastasio, Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Metastasio
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The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
Morte d' Abele (1732)
To take away life is a power which the vilest of the earth have in common; to give it belongs to gods and kings alone.
La Clemenza di Tito (1734)
Know that the slender shrub which is seen to bend, conquers when it yields to the storm.
Il Trionfo di Clelia (1762)
That water which falls from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its fall.
Alcide al Bivio (1760)
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.
Giuseppe Riconosciuto (1733)
What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turbid at its source?
Morte d' Abele (1732)
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied!
Giuseppe Riconosciuto (1733)
In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course. To the pilgrim often a single footstep suffices to enable him to find his way across the bewildering plain.
Achille in Sciro (1736)
The fiery lava in the hollow bosom of the earth, if it be restrained, in spite of its prison, bursts forth with greater force; then flows abroad, but, as it flows, subverts, beats down, and overthrows plains, mountains, forests, and cities.
Achille in Sciro (1736)
“It is the just decree of Heaven, that never seeth a traitor his danger, till his ruin is at hand.”
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