Metastasio

[ me-tah-stah-zyaw ]

noun

1. Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi, 1698–1782, Italian poet and dramatist.

Metastasio

/ metasˈtaːzjo /

noun

1. MetastasioPietro16981782MItalianWRITING: poetMUSIC: librettist Pietro (ˈpjɛːtro), original name Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi. 1698–1782, Italian poet and librettist; Viennese court poet (from 1730). His works include La clemenza di Tito (1732)

Example Sentences

There is a pleasing description of these sudden winters in one of the letters of the poet Metastasio, while residing at Vienna.

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Metastasio, it will be remembered, was attached to the court of Austria in quality of Imperial poet.

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Apostolo Zeno, as celebrated for his erudition as for his poetic powers, was succeeded by that most enchanting poet, Metastasio.

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Count Firmian presented Wolfgang with a snuff-box and 20 gigliati,16 together with a copy of Metastasio's works.

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He proved, said Metastasio,29 that the opera and good sense are not absolutely contradictory terms.

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