Lorenzo da ponte biography book
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Lorenzo da ponte biography book
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Italian opera librettist, poet, and Roman Catholic priest (1749–1838)
Lorenzo Da Ponte[a] (né Emanuele Conegliano; 10 March 1749 – 17 August 1838[4]) was an Italian, later American, operalibrettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest.
He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celebrated operas: The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790).
He was the first professor of Italian literature at Columbia University, and with Manuel Garcia, the first to introduce Italian opera to America.[5][6] Da Ponte was also a close friend of Mozart and Casanova.[5][7]
Early career
Lorenzo Da Ponte was born Emanuele Conegliano in 1749 in Ceneda in the Republic of Venice (now Vittorio Veneto, Italy).
He was Jewish by birth, the eldest of three sons.[8] In 1764, his father, Geronimo Conegliano, then a w