Pietro Metastasio
Pietro Metastasio
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 January 1698
ancestry birth virtue
High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
warrior blow haste
An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.