Francesco Maria Piave

Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 1810 – 5 March 1876) was an Italian opera librettist who was born in Murano in the lagoon of Venice, during the brief Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.

Quotes

Classical and Foreign Quotations (1904)

W. Francis H. King. 3rd ed. London: J. Whitaker & Sons

• La donna è mobile
  Qual pium' al vento,
  Muta accento, e di pensier.
  • Woman is as light as a feather before the breeze. Her tone and thoughts are ever changing.
  • Rigoletto, 3, 2 (Music by Verdi)
  • pp. 158–9, no. 1232

• Parigi, o cara, noi lasceremo,
  La vita uniti trascorreremo.
  • We shall leave Paris, darling, and journey thro' life hand in hand.
  • La Traviata, 3, 6 (Music by Verdi)
  • p. 257, no. 2019

• Per angusta ad augusta.
  • Thro' Hardship to Honour.
  • Motto of Margrave Ernest of Brandenburg (d. 1642), and the password of the "conspirators" in Piave's opera of Ernani (Music by Verdi), 3, 3, and 4
  • p. 262, no. 2064

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Francesco Maria Piave on Wikipedia