Salvator Rosa - A Man of Many Talents

There is a Chinese proverb going “Man of many talents is master of none”, and it is perhaps taken way too seriously by many - we don't know a lot of gifted persons who participate in different activities. However, men of many talents and masters of more than one existed – take Leonardo da Vinci or Salvator Rosa. Even though Rosa is not a person of the same caliber as his legendary predecessor (also Italian, by the way), he is the only painter, poet, satirist, and in the same time composer I know. Selve, voi che le speranze is his small but very amiable piece, and it can be found by the following link: Selve, voi che le speranze, for Voice and Piano.