Paolo Rolli

Paolo Rolli
FRS
Born(1687-06-13)13 June 1687
Rome, Papal States
Died20 March 1765(1765-03-20) (aged 77)
Todi, Papal States
Resting placeSan Fortunato, Todi
Alma materRoman College
Occupations
  • Poet
  • intellectual
  • librettist
Writing career
Language
  • Italian
  • English
Period
Genres
Literary movementNeoclassicism

Paolo Antonio Rolli FRS (13 June 1687 – 20 March 1765) was an Italian Rococo librettist, poet and translator. Generally ranked second to Pietro Metastasio among early eighteenth-century Italian poets, Rolli was a member of several Italian academies and a fellow of the Royal Society (1729).

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