Lorenzo da Ponte
Lorenzo da Ponte · Arts & Literature
Poet / lyricist
1749, Ceneda (now Vittorio Veneto), Republic of Venice — 1838, New York City, USA
Italy · Austria · United States
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Lorenzo Da Ponte was an Italian poet and librettist who wrote the librettos for three of Mozart's greatest operas — 'The Marriage of Figaro,' 'Don Giovanni' and 'Così fan tutte' — and later brought Italian opera and literature to the United States as the first professor of Italian at Columbia. He was born Emanuele Conegliano into a Jewish family in the Venetian ghetto; the family converted to Catholicism when he was fourteen, upon which he took his Christian name.
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Poet / lyricist
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