Poet, librettist, journalist, numismatist and man of letters
Known for
Reform of melodrama
Spouse
Ludovica Mondonovo
Parent(s)
Pietro Zeno and Caterina Zeno (née Sevastò)
Academic background
Education
Collegio di Castello
Influences
Euripides[1]
Jean Racine[1]
Academic work
Influenced
Ludovico Antonio Muratori[1]
Gasparo Gozzi[1]
Metastasio[1]
Carlo Goldoni[1]
Giovanni de Gamerra[1]
Apostolo Zeno (11 December 1668 in Venice[2] – 11 November 1750 in Venice) was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters.
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^Phillimore, Catherine Mary (1891). Studies in Italian Literature, Classical and Modern. S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. p. 162. OCLC 11170706. Apostolo Zeno was born in Venice in 1668, His father, Pietro Zeno, was a doctor of medicine ; his brother, Catarina, belonged to the family of the Sevasti.
ApostoloZeno (11 December 1668 in Venice – 11 November 1750 in Venice) was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters. Apostolo Zeno...
the most successful librettist of the era was Metastasio, others were ApostoloZeno, Benedetto Pamphili, Silvio Stampiglia, Antonio Salvi, Pietro Pariati...
history of the Republic of Venice. ApostoloZeno (1669–1750) Venetian poet, librettist, and journalist. Carlo Zeno (1333–1418) Venetian Admiral during...
after only seven months of rule, most likely on 2 November. In 1707, ApostoloZeno and Pietro Pariati wrote a libretto entitled Flavio Anicio Olibrio....
libretto di Pietro Pariati e ApostoloZeno, 1706, Livorno) L'amor generoso (dramma per musica, libretto di ApostoloZeno,, 2º Atto musica Rocco Ceruti...
modern Christendom. London: J.R. Smith. pp. xi. ISBN 9781497873087. ApostoloZeno, Compendio della storia Veneta, self-published, Venezia, 1847. Italian...
Archived from the original on 11 August 2022. Zeno, Apostolo (1847). Compendio della storia Veneta di ApostoloZeno continuata fino alla caduta della repubblica...
begins ApostoloZeno, Compendio della storia Veneta di ApostoloZeno continuata fino alla caduta della repubblica 1847:9. Norwich 1982, p. 16. Zeno, Compendio...
in Tuscany and Padua. Around 1700, he settled in Venice where he met ApostoloZeno, Antonio Vallisneri, and other scholars. In 1709, he was invited to...
the basis for Child ballad 269, "Lady Diamond". The Venetian writer ApostoloZeno wrote a libretto named Griselda in 1701, based in part on tale X, 10...
three acts by the Italian composer Tomaso Albinoni with a libretto by ApostoloZeno and Pietro Pariati. It was first performed at the Teatro Capranica in...
an Epithalamium, and a collection of his letters. It was disputed by ApostoloZeno whether he deserved credit for a Supplement to the work of Livy, containing...
opera seria, and arose in reaction to the so-called first reform of ApostoloZeno and Pietro Metastasio. It was, in part, intended as a genre that the...
Albinoni's La Statira; opera (dramma per musica) in 3 acts; libretto by ApostoloZeno and Pietro Pariati; Carnival season, 1726 Tommaso Albinoni's Malsazio...
Italian opera composed by Antonio Vivaldi in 1719 to a libretto by ApostoloZeno of 1706, which was first performed at the Teatro Arciducale in Mantua...
Antonio Salvi 22 June 1718 Florence, Teatro della Pergola 13 736 Teuzzone ApostoloZeno 28 December 1718 Mantua, Teatro Arciducale 14 738 Tito Manlio Matteo...
mainly performed. In Venice the reform of melodrama was initiated by ApostoloZeno, who, inspired by French tragedy, made melodrama more sober and constructed...
Johannis Oricellarii ad Hadrianum VI. Pontificem Maximum, in [ApostoloZeno, Piercaterino Zeno], Giornale de' letterati d'Italia, Tomo trentesimoterzo, parte...
was rewritten by the young Carlo Goldoni from an earlier libretto by ApostoloZeno. Like many composers of the time, Vivaldi faced financial difficulties...
Teatro S. Moisè, 1682, as Gli amori fatali) Il Narciso, pastorale (ApostoloZeno Ansbach Court Theatre, March 1697) Le pazzie d'amore e dell'interesse...
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