Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Metastasio
Born: January 3, 1698
Died: April 12, 1782 (aged 84)
Bio: Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.
Known for:
- Three Melodramas by Pietro Metastasio
- Semiramide riconosciuta (1762)
- Puffinpack. Middle Primary Level