Author:Pietro Metastasio

Pietro Metastasio
(1698–1782)

Pietro Metastasio

Works

• Translations from Camoens; and Other Poets, with Original Poetry translated by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1818)
  • "Dunque si sfoga in pianto"
  • "Al furor d'avversa sorte"
  • "Quella onda che ruina"
  • "Leggiadra rosa, le cui pure foglie"
  • "Che speri, instabil Dea, di sassi, e spine"
  • "Parlagli d'un periglio"
  • "Sprezza il furor del vento"
  • "Sol può dir che sia contento"
  • "Ah! frenate le piante imbelle"
• "Hymn to Venus" translated by Mary Diana Dods in The Literary Pocket-Book (1823)

Works about Metastasio

• "Metastasio, Pietro," in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, (ed.) by George Grove, London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. (1900)
• "Metastasio," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Pietro Metastasio," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)