Apostolo Zeno was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters.
15 Facts About Apostolo Zeno
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Apostolo Zeno was born in Venice to a colonial branch of the Zeno family, an ancient Venetian patrician family.
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Apostolo Zeno's family had been transplanted from Venice to the Kingdom of Candia in the 13th century in order to maintain Venetian order and suppress any rebellious subjects.
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Apostolo Zeno's father was Pietro Zeno, a doctor of medicine, and his mother, Caterina Sevasto, belonged to an illustrious and powerful family from Candia, Crete.
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Apostolo Zeno was in 1691 among the founders of the Accademia degli Animosi.
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Apostolo Zeno began work as a literary journalist for the Galleria di Minerva, taking upon executive responsibilities, but distanced himself when he realized that he had not succeeded in making the impact upon the publication that he intended.
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In 1700 Zeno provided a translation of Pierre Le Lorrain de Vallemont's Les elements de l'histoire for the benefit of Italians.
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In 1702 Apostolo Zeno found the perfect opportunity to put his theories into practice.
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Apostolo Zeno gave Egypt to Domenico Suarez of Mantua, China to Vittore Silvio Grandi of Venice; and he gave England, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, the Duchy of Holstein and the counties of Guelders to Apostolo Zeno.
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Apostolo Zeno didn't treat the Holy Roman Empire as the logical extension of Rome into the modern world, so he could quletly divide the section on the third monarchy into separate volumes on each of the Northern kingdoms.
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Apostolo Zeno remained in Vienna until 1729, at which point he was replaced by Pietro Metastasio.
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Apostolo Zeno returned to Venice, dedicating himself to works of erudition and to coin-collecting.
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Apostolo Zeno was the first to undertake reform to make melodrama more sober, according to the arcadici principles, developed further by Metastasio.
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Apostolo Zeno reduced the number of characters and scenes and eliminated the clown roles, constructing his works so that they could be presented without music.
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Apostolo Zeno was the poet of melodrama; Zeno was the architect.