Francesco Maria Piave

thumb| 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 mobileQual 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 Category:1810 births Category:1876 deaths Category:Journalists from Italy Category:Translators from Italy