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    Francesco Scipione Maffei (Italian: [franˈtʃesko ʃʃiˈpjoːne mafˈfɛi]; 1 June 1675 – 11 February 1755) was an Italian writer and art critic, author of...
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    Mérope (original French title: La Mérope Française) is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire. The text is a reworking by Voltaire of the Italian tragedy Merope...
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  • victim, killed him and regained his paternal kingdom." Scipione Maffei premiered his tragedy Merope in Verona on June 12, 1713; it quickly became popular...
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    Faithful Nymph, RV 714) is an opera by Antonio Vivaldi to a libretto by Scipione Maffei. The opera was first performed for the opening of the Teatro Filarmonico...
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    Suetonian model of a series of biographies. In 1710 together with Scipione Maffei, Antonio Vallisneri and his brother, Pier Caterino Zeno, he founded...
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  • company to France where she was the first to play Merope by Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei. Balletti was a renowned actress in Paris known by...
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    selected by Scipione Maffei, together with Trissino's Sophonisba, a translation by Orsato Giustiniano of the Oedipus of Sophocles, and the Merope of Pomponio...
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  • Hunter – Androboros Charles Johnson – The Victim Francesco Scipione, marchese di MaffeiMerope (published in 1714, but initially staged in 1713) Nicholas...
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    theatrical performance to be staged at the Teatro Pubblico was Scipione Maffei's classic tragedy Merope, on 9 January 1732. The actors in that production were...
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    Almeida Garrett affirmed that his uncle did translate the tragedy Merope, by Scipione Maffei, but could not remember if it was published, and the manuscript...
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  • Teatro Pubblico) opens in Valletta with a performance of Scipione Maffei's classic tragedy Merope. 1749 29 June Conspiracy of the Slaves 1758 Fort Chambray...
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    the early 18th century was Scipione Maffei who finally managed to compose an Italian tragedy worthy of the name: the Merope. In the second half of the...
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