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The celebrated opera librettist Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782), although he had his own differences with Arcadia, was a student of Gravina's and a leading light of the academy's second generation. His works, of which the best remembered might be Il Re Pastore because of its setting by Mozart, may represent the closest thing to a justification ...
Caterina Imperiale Pallavicini (also spelled "Catharina"; pen name, Arsinda Poliades; fl. 1721) was an 18th-century Neo-Latin poet from the greater Genoa region. Her work, which was published in the collections of the Pontifical Academy of Arcadia (Pontificia Accademia degli Arcadi [1]), includes the styles of epigram and elegy.
The Academy of Arcadia was so called because its chief aim and intention were to imitate in literature the simplicity of the ancient shepherds, who were fabulously supposed to have lived in Arcadia in the golden age, divinely inspired in poetry by the Muses, Apollo, Hermes and Pan. The Arcadians proposed to return to the fields of truth, always ...
The Placiti Cassinesi are four official juridical documents written between 960 and 963 in southern Italy, regarding a dispute on several lands among three Benedictine monasteries and a local landowner.
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The Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas or Pontificia Accademia di San Tommaso d'Aquino, founded in 1879, promotes the study of Thomism; The Pontifical Academy of Mary or Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis was established in 1946 and promotes Mariology
Pontifical Academy of Arcadia: Title: Princess of Piombino, from Messina: Anna Maria Arduino (1672–1700) was an Italian regent, socialite, painter and writer.
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