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Description: Biography of Italian poet, dramatist and librettist Pietro Metastasio.
This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 5 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 35-39. Born at Rome, on the third day of January, 1698, Metastasio was apprenticed to the trade of a goldsmith, educated by a friend of the family, the jurist Gravina, who, appreciating his fine talents, took him into his own household, changing his name from Trapassi to the Greek translation of the same word, Metastasio, as more refined. Gravina also took care to have him instructed in every branch of knowledge likely to facilitate his progress in poetic art, whereby his powers were so thoroughly cultivated that he was enabled to express the finest traits of sentiment and passion with equal grace and facility. But Metastasio especially devoted himself to the style of composition by which he attained celebrity. At the early age of fourteen he wrote a tragedy, entitled
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