Pietro Metastasio
![Metastasio, {{circa|1770}} by [[Martin van Meytens|Meytens]] or [[Pompeo Batoni|Batoni]]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Metastasio_by_Batoni.jpg)
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of ''opera seria'' libretti.
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Published: ©, 2004
Superior document: Sämtliche Werke Abt. 3, Italienische Opere serie und Opernserenaden, Bd. 13