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Pietro Metastasio

Died on April 2, 1782

244

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Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (Italian pronunciation:), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.

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