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What books did Pietro Metastasio write?

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He wrote melodious lyric verse; a masque, Gli orti esperidi (1721-22); and librettos of many operas, including Didone abbandonata (1724), Artaserse (1730, tr. 1761), La clemenza di Tito (1734, tr. 1811), and Il re pastore (1751, tr. 1765).

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