Works on the history of Rome by Metastasio and his spanish translators highlighting the importance of the jesuit Benito Antonio de Céspedes

The History of Rome and its famous figures provided 18th century playwrights and librettists with attractive ideas for their plots, as happened earlier with Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Calderon de la Barca, Corneille or Racine. Metastasio, Italian librettist, had a considerable influence o...

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Published inCuadernos de investigación filológica Vol. 39; pp. 187 - 204
Main Author Cristina Martín Puente
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Universidad de La Rioja 01.12.2013
Subjects
benito antonio de céspedes
historia de roma
jesuitas
metastasio
teatro español del siglo xviii
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Summary:The History of Rome and its famous figures provided 18th century playwrights and librettists with attractive ideas for their plots, as happened earlier with Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Calderon de la Barca, Corneille or Racine. Metastasio, Italian librettist, had a considerable influence on the period due to the successful staging of his works, some of them about Ancient Rome based upon Greco-roman authors. He can be considered an intermediary between the authors of antiquity and Spanish authors writing in the transition between the Enlightenment and Liberalism. The Jesuit Benito Antonio de Céspedes was the most prolific translator of Metastasio’s works although only one manuscript has survived.
ISSN:0211-0547
1699-292X
DOI:10.18172/cif.2561