Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte
$50.35
- Paperback
472 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2006
Summary
Plot and counterplot lie at the heart of Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and The Marriage of Figaro, the three brilliant libretti that Lorenzo Da Ponte prepared for Mozart. They were also central to Da Ponte’s own extraordinary life. His Memoirs record a fantastic variety of romantic, political, and professional intrigues, and tell of meetings with a host of remarkable men. In a life that took him from the canals of Venice to the streets of New York, Da Ponte…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780940322356 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0940322358 |
| Author: | Lorenzo Da Ponte, Charles Rosen |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 472 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 516g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 128mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
Critics Review
“I shall speak of things…so singular in their oddity as in some manner to instruct, or at least entertain, without wearying.” —Lorenzo Da Ponte
“[Da Ponte] was in the course of his lifetime the friend of Mozart, the confidante of Casanova, and the protege of the author of The Night Before Christmas…To savor to the full the richness produced by the commingling of such exotic ingredients one must sit down with the Memoirs and follow the gifted vagabond step by step.” —Thomas G. Bergin, Yale University
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838) was born Emanuele Conegliano, the son of a tanner in a Jewish ghetto near Venice. His father had the family baptized, changing their name to Da Ponte in honor of the local bishop, and enrolled his son in a seminary, where the young Da Ponte soon mastered Latin and the works of the great Italian poets. Da Ponte’s long and exceptionally varied career led him across Europe and, eventually, to New York, where he died some years after opening the city’s first opera house.
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