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Pietro Metastasio was a 17th-century Italian poet and librettist. 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. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?”
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“Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.”
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“If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?”
— Pietro Metastasio
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“Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other”
— Pietro Metastasio
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