Pietro Metastasio
Pietro Trapassi (January 13, 1698 April 12, 1782), Italian poet, is better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio.
2 Quotes
High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
— Pietro Metastasio
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
— Pietro Metastasio