Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Pietro Metastasio
Standard Name: Metastasio, Pietro
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
lodged for a time at Cambridge in order to study Italian with Signor Agostino Isola
, because she wanted to read Metastasio
in the original. Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905. 41 Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Six Life Studies of Famous Women. Griffith and Farran, 1880. 235 |
| Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | Cornelia corresponded regularly with Violet for four years (until her death), encouraging the latter's interests in European, especially Italian, literature and music, as well as the development of Violet's own work. Cornelia gave Violet a... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | The play is adapted from Pietro Metastasio
's Attilio Regolo. Its tone is stiff and declamatory. Marcus Attilius Regulus
, captured by Carthaginians, is sent home to Rome to urge his fellow-Romans to accept... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Nooth | The novel combines domestic humour and social satire. The courtship of Eglantine Fortescue and the young officer Augustus Fitzroy is almost overshadowed by the broad-brush picture of their families and friends. Eglantine incurs disapproval first... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Porter | The title-page gives its quotation from Metastasio
(about sacrificing one's feelings) in both Italian and English. Porter, Anna Maria. The Lake of Killarney. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804, 3 vols. 1: i |
| Textual Features | Mary Charlton | MC
's targets are the same as those of Jane Austen
's juvenilia: the motifs and the hyperbole of sentimental and gothic novels. It is not her heroine but her heroine's mother who is led... |
| Textual Features | Susanna Watts | The translations include some from French and some from the Italian of Bembo
(sonnets) or of Metastasio
. One of longer original poems is A Forlorn Stranger, spoken by the last cedar of Lebanon... |
| Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Butler | Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton
, and Harriet Pigott
therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby
. Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, 1930, p. vii - viii; various pages. vii |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | In this text VL
attempts to judge and recreate elements of artistic and social climates: the growth and decline of the Academy of Arcadia
, public performances of opera and commedia del'arte, and, in her... |
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