Apostolo Zeno

Italian poet

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Italian literature
- In Italian literature: The world of learning
  Vico, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Apostolo Zeno, and the already mentioned Scipione Maffei were writers who reflected the awakening of historical consciousness in Italy. Muratori collected primary sources for the study of the Italian Middle Ages. Vico, in his Scienza nuova (1725–44; The New Science), investigated the laws governing the…
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opera
- In opera: Development of operatic styles in other Italian cities
  …Metastasio and his Venetian predecessor Apostolo Zeno wrote texts of formal beauty and linguistic clarity, preferring solemn, usually tragic subjects (opera seria) in three acts to comic episodes and characters.
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