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