Quote of the day
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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