Memoirs
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Memoirs
（New York review books classics）
New York Review Books, c2000
- : pbk.
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Memorie
Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Memorie
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Includes bibliographical references
"Renewal copyright 1957 by Elisabeth Abbott. Translation copyright c1959 by Elisabeth Abbott. Introduction copyright c2000 by Charles Rosen"--T.p. verso
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Plot and counterplot lie at the heart of Don Giovanni, Cosi 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 was at different times priest, professional gambler, proprietor of a bordello, political agitator, court poet, impresario, grocery store owner, and the first professor of Italian literature at Columbia University. His Memoirs, a minor classic of Italian literature, are the picaresque and engrossing story of a man of enormous talent and unsurpassed flair who was, above all, an indefatigable survivor.
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