Metastasio, Pietro Antonio Domenico Buonaventura, 1698-1782
Notes:
His Comedia nova do insigne abbade Pedro Matastasio intitulada O principe pastor ... 1790 t.p. (insigne abbade Pedro Matastasio)
Palau (Metastasio or Metastase, Pedro or Pietro; real name is Pietro Antonio Trapassi Gallastri; Metastase is pseud., hellenization of Trapassi)
New Grove dict. of music and musicians (Metastasio, Pietro; Trapassi, Antonio Domenico Bonaventura; b. Rome 1-3-1698; d. Vienna 4-12-1782; Italian poet and librettist; his libretti were set to music over 800 times by various composers during 18th and early 19th cent.)
Bach, J.C. Catone in Utica, 1987 CIP t.p. (Metastasio)