Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio by C... - 9781108014656

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate MetastasioIn which are Incorporated, Translations of his Principal Letters\nAuthor(s): Charles Burney, Pietro Metastasio\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108014656, 978-1108014656\nSynopsis\nThis three-volume biography, first published in 1796, recounts the colourful life of the popular Italian poet and librettist Pietro Trapassi [tel], better known by his pseudonym Metastasio. Charles Burney [tel], a British composer and the author of a celebrated four-volume History of Music published between 1776 and 1789, interweaves his own accounts of the poet's life with Metastasio's original letters translated into English. Metastasio's posthumously published correspondence with his friends and patrons provides the essential thread to understanding his complex life and affairs. The son of a shopkeeper, Metastasio was adopted as a young boy by the director o.