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Memoirs / Lorenzo Da Ponte ; translated by Elisabeth Abbott ; edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Arthur Livingston ; preface by Charles Rosen.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML423.D15 A3 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Standardized Title:
- Memorie. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.
- Da Ponte, Lorenzo.
- Librettists--Biography.
- Librettists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 472 pages ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Series title page: Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- 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. 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. These Memoirs are the picaresque and engrossing story of a man of talent and unsurpassed flair who was, above all, an indefatigable survivor.
- ISBN:
- 0940322358
- OCLC:
- 42289717
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