1. The couple had two sons and two daughters; Pietro Metastasio was the younger son.
21 Facts About Pietro Metastasio
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Gravina hellenized the boy's name Trapassi into Pietro Metastasio, and intended his adopted son to be a jurist like himself.
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Pietro Metastasio therefore made the boy learn Latin and law.
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Pietro Metastasio soon found himself competing with the most celebrated improvvisatori of his time in Italy.
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Pietro Metastasio decided to apply himself seriously to the work of his profession.
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Pietro Metastasio migrated to Naples, and entered the office of an eminent lawyer named Castagnola, who exercised severe control over his time and energies.
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In 1722, while Naples was under Austrian rule, the birthday of Empress Elisabeth Christine had to be celebrated with more than ordinary honours, and the viceroy asked Pietro Metastasio to compose a serenata for the occasion.
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Pietro Metastasio wrote "Gli orti esperidi", which was set to music by Nicola Porpora, and sung by Porpora's pupil, the castrato Farinelli, making a spectacular debut, it won the most enthusiastic applause.
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Pietro Metastasio wrote quickly and his plays were enhanced by being set to music and sung by the greatest singers of the day.
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Pietro Metastasio fostered the poet's genius and pampered his caprices.
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Pietro Metastasio gained 300 scudi for each opera; this pay, though good, was precarious and he longed for some fixed engagement.
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Pietro Metastasio took charge of his family in Rome and he set off for Austria.
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Pietro Metastasio understood the technique of his peculiar art in its minutest details.
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Pietro Metastasio had lost her husband, and had some while occupied the post of chief favourite to the emperor.
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Bulgarelli tired of his absence, and asked Pietro Metastasio to get her an engagement at the court theatre.
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Pietro Metastasio was ashamed of her and tired of her, and wrote dissuading her from the projected visit.
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Pietro Metastasio seems to have set out from Rome, but died suddenly upon the road.
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Pietro Metastasio sank rapidly into the habits of old age; and, though he lived till the year 1782, he was very inactive.
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The demise of castrato singing meant that Pietro Metastasio's operas dropped out of the repertory.
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Language in Pietro Metastasio's hands is musical, lucid, and songlike, perhaps due to his experience as an improvisatory poet.
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Pietro Metastasio was an admirer of Torquato Tasso, Giambattista Marino, Giovanni Battista Guarini, and Ovid.