“That water which falls from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its fall.”

—  Pietro Metastasio

Alcide al Bivio (1760), scene 5.

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Italian poet and librettist (born 3 January 1698, died 12 A… 1698–1782

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