Memoirs Of Lorenzo Da Ponte

By Lorenzo Da Ponte Preface by Charles Rosen


Memoirs Of Lorenzo Da Ponte
Online price: £8.99
Item is currently out of stock Paperback, 472 pages
Published: 1st June 2000

Category: Biography and Memoirs


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 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.



Publication Details:

Binding: Paperback, 472 pages
ISBN: 9780940322356
Format: 203mm x 127mm

Imprint: NYRB Classics


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