√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Pietro Metastasio | Opere | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Read Betula (sic) Liberata to my beloved. Explained all the difficult passages." | Lady Eleanor Butler | Metastasio | Betulia Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Pietro Metastasio | opera (16 Tom) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud' | Mary Shelley | Pietro Metastasio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare' | Mary Shelley | Pietro Metastasio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | L'Olimpiade | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Demofoonte | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Giuseppe riconosciuto | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Gioas re de Giuda | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | La Clemenza di Tito | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Catone in Utica | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Attilio Regolo | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Ciro riconosciuto | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Zenobia | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'. | Charlotte Bury | Metastasio [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Da... | Hester Maria Thrale | Metastasio [pseud.] | Adriano | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (December 1804):
'I have been reading a grea... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Metastasio | Isacco | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754:
'After that exquisitely beautiful sonnet [by Carlo Maria Maggi,... | Elizabeth Carter | Metastasio | 'love song' opening 'Ecco qual fiero istante' | Unknown |