biography
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Da Ponte, Lorenzo
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originally Emanuele Conegliano
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pronunciation:
[da pontay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1749–1838)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Ceneda, NE Italy. He was professor of rhetoric at Treviso until political and domestic troubles drove him to Vienna, where as a poet to the Court Opera he wrote the libretti for Mozart's operas The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790). In 1805 he moved to New York City, where he became professor of Italian literature at Columbia College in 1825. |
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