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
hands heaven ruins
It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.
errors ignorant wonder
How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons
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.