Pietro Metastasio

(1698-1782)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782 LBT ID: PiMetas1782 VIAF ID: 64192672 LOC ID: n80030808	B/BAP: 1698-01-03 DIED: 1782-04-12
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Italian poet who cultivated pastoral simplicity; author of Clemenza di Tito (1734), set by Scarlatti, Mozart, and Gluck.
REFERENCES TO Pietro Metastasio: Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Byron's family; his indiscretions Found 1: ¶ n2 Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello, 19 January 1826 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 2: ¶ 98 ¶ 99 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Thomas Medwin, “Hazlitt in Switzerland: a Conversation” in Fraser’s Magazine 19 (March 1839) 278-283 Found 1: ¶ 27 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 2 Found 1: ¶ 20 Chapter 10 Found 1: ¶ 9 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Leigh Hunt