Apostolo Zeno - Knowledge

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as the logical extension of Rome into the modern world, so he could quietly divide the section on the third monarchy into separate volumes on each of the Northern kingdoms. And in order to avoid the dizzying complexities of a straight narrative presentation of hundreds of years of documented history,

842:...Nicolò, primogenito di Pietro e Caterina Sevasto, nacque a Venezia, il 27 luglio 1666, da un ramo della nobile famiglia veneziana degli Zeno, che si era trasferito a Candia e che, in seguito, aveva perso la prerogativa dell'inclusione nel libro d'oro dell'aristocrazia veneta. 475:

to Apostolo Zeno. The finished work promised to fill an important gap in popular historiography and to achieve considerable sales among educated readers. In scholarship, Zeno far outdid Foresti, who was not above repeating the popular myth about the fall of

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Nella colonia delle famiglie patrizie, che la repubblica Veneta trapianti nel regno di Candia a fine di ritenere più, agevolmente a freno que' sudditi rivoltosi, fu compreso anche il ramo dell'illustre famiglia da cui discese il nostro

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520:, maintaining that it was necessary that "Italians themselves make their own newspaper... revealing that good sense, erudition and ingenuity never were lacking among us, and now more than ever are they flourishing." 435:(1580). Now it was to be completed and republished by the Venetian firm of Girolamo Albrizzi. Adopting the approach of Tarcagnota's early seventeenth-century editors, later repeated by William Temple in 1695 for a 341:, also taking upon executive responsibilities, but distanced himself when he realized that he had not succeeded in making the impact upon the publication that he intended. In the end he described it as an 1051: 379:

rhetorician and historian Antonio Foresti had been left unfinished at its author's death in 1692. One of the most thorough works of its kind, it had already run into 6 volumes, covering

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Dopo la irruzione dell'armi ottomane in quell'isola si restituì la rimasta prosapia Zeno all'antica sua patria, non riammessa però all'ordin patrizio, ma solo alla veneta cittadinanza.

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Dopo la irruzione dell'armi ottomane in quell'isola si restituì la rimasta prosapia Zeno all'antica sua patria, non riammessa però all'ordin patrizio, ma solo alla veneta cittadinanza.

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in 1718, his brother, Pier Caterino took over the direction until 1732, publishing the periodical annually. Apostolo remained in Vienna until 1729, at which point he was replaced by

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was born a demand for greater verisimilitude in plots and for literary dignity in texts. Zeno was the first to undertake reform to make melodrama more sober, according to the

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Having lost his father at an early age, he was left to the care of his mother, who remarried to Venetian senator Pier Antonio Cornaro. His education was entrusted to the

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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.

928:...Caterina d'Apostolo Sevasto (cioè a dire d'una delle Famiglie di Candia, che ne varcati secoli fossero ivi in grande stato e di nobiltà, e di possanza). 484:). He also outdid the rest of the collaborators. Unlike them, he followed the Renaissance humanists in discarding the awkward Christianized version of the 1041: 1031: 982: 968: 946:

Perdette egli il genitore nella sua tenera età... Prese ella singolar cura della educazione del N. Apostolo, che affidò a P.P. Somaschi...

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principles, developed further by Metastasio. Inspired by French tragedians, he respected, as they did, the rule of the

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in the 13th century in order to maintain Venetian order and suppress any rebellious subjects. Following the

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Zeno wrote the libretti for 36 operas with historical and mythological themes, including

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