Pietro Metastasio
Pietro Metastasio was born in Rome, Lazio, Italy on January 3rd, 1698 and is the Poet. At the age of 84, Pietro Metastasio biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Pietro Antonio Trapassi (3 January 1698 – April 12, 1782), better known by his pseudonym Pietro Metastasio (Italian pronunciation: [pjnym: phtro metazjo] was an Italian poet and librettist who was regarded as the country's most important writer on opera libretti.
Early life
Metastasio was born in Rome, where his father, Felice Trapassi, a native of Assisi, had served in the papal regiment of Corsican. Felice married Francesca Galasti, a Bolognese woman, and became a grocer in Via dei Cappellari. The couple had two sons and two daughters; Pietro was the younger brother.
Pietro, though still a youth, is said to have attracted huge audiences by reciting impromptu verses on a given topic. Two men of note listened closely in 1709: Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, a renowned for literary and literary erudition as well as his directorship of the Arcadian Academy, and Lorenzini, a historian of some note, paused to listen on one such occasion. Gravina was enticed by the boy's poetic ability and personal charm and made Pietro his protégé, and in a matter of a few weeks, he adopted him. Felice Trapassi was delighted to give his son the opportunity of a rich education and integration into society.
Gravina turned Trapassio's name into Metastasio, and she wanted his adopted son to be a jurist like himself. He therefore made the child learn Latin and law. He cultivated his literary talents, as well as displaying the youthful prodigy at both his own home and in Roman coteries. Metastasio soon found himself in Italy competing against the most renowned improvvisatori of his time. Pietro's health was affected by his days of study and evenings dedicated to improvising poetry.
Gravina, a business trip to Calabria, displayed Metastasio in Naples' literary circles, and then placed him in the care of his kinsman Gregorio Caroprese at Scaléa. Metastasio's health has been restored to normalcy in country air and silence. Gravina has agreed that he will never improvise again, but that nobler efforts should take precedence, since he has completed his education, he may be able to compete with the best poets in the world.
Metastasio retaliated in response to his patron's wishes. He converted the Iliad into oc Wales stanzas at the age of 12, and two years later he wrote a Senecan tragedy based on Gian Giorgio Trissino's Italia liberata – Gravina's favorite epic. It was published in 1713 and was published in Giustino; forty-two years later, Metastasio told his publisher that he would gladly refuse to publish this juvenilia.
Caroprese died in 1714, leaving Gravina his heir, and Gravina died in 1718. Metastasio inherited a 15,000 scudi fortune. He read an elegy to his patron at a meeting of the Arcadian Academy and then settled down to enjoy his wealth.
