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	Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
		At the age of twenty-one, Da Ponte was made a teacher at another seminary, and at twenty-four he was ordained as a priest.
		Da Ponte wrote some poems titled "Whether man is happier in an organized society or in a simple state of nature." They caused him to be denounced to the Venetian Senate, and his subsequent trial made a great sensation.
		Later Da Ponte was induced to move to Pennsylvania where he tried his hand in turn as a grocer, distiller, milliner, seller of medicines and teamster, but recurring financial problems convinced him to return to New York.
	www.italian.ucla.edu /lpil/daponte.html (1827 words)

	Lorenzo Da Ponte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Da Ponte was a converted Jew, and trained for the priesthood and to be a teacher.
		Da Ponte later worked in Paris, London, and eventually moved to New York City, where he opened a grocery store, and to Philadelphia to run a grocery store and teaching Italian private lessons, then returning to NYC to run a bookstore.
		Da Ponte's works were generally based on pre-existing plots, which was common at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lorenzo_da_Ponte (632 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts special reports \| Anthony Holden on Lorenzo da Ponte
		It was in 1783 that Da Ponte met the young, unemployed and impoverished composer from Salzburg.
		Da Ponte and Mozart were the twin pillars of that crucial transition, transforming opera into an art form exploring central human issues in a potent, accessible but above all realistic manner, via characters the audience could recognise, and with whom they could identify.
		Da Ponte's remains were lost in the process, but a tombstone was finally erected in 1987 beneath the jets roaring into JFK.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /mozart/story/0,,1683327,00.html (2195 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| Mozart? He owes it all to me
		Da Ponte was in his 60s, and living in New York, when he began writing his memoirs, and they need to be treated with caution.
		Da Ponte travelled to Dresden, and then to Vienna, where he was appointed poet of King Joseph II's Italian opera troupe in 1783.
		Da Ponte persuaded the company to mount a production of the opera, and thus it was that on May 23 1826, nearly 40 years after its premiere, he heard "his" opera again.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /fridayreview/story/0,12102,1251377,00.html (1319 words)

	Lorenzo Da Ponte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The bishop of the see, Lorenzo Da Ponte, seeing the talents of the lad, gave him his own name and sent him to the local seminary to be educated.
		Here Da Ponte remained for five years, and then went to teach in the University of Treviso.
		Da Ponte enjoys the distinction of being the first teacher in America to lecture on Dante's "Divina Commedia".
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/d/da_ponte,lorenzo.html (306 words)

	LORENZO DA PONTE, MOZART’S LIBRETTIST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Da Ponte and his family were Jewish and, in fact, Venice was one of the few areas in Europe at that time were Jews were given even token equality with Christians (although they still had to live in a ghetto).
		Da Ponte was in the right place at the right time, and managed to get himself appointed poet to this theater.
		One of da Ponte’s mistresses during his 10 years in Vienna was Adriana Gabrieli, a fine singer with a stupendous range, known as "La Ferrarese." (As usual, she was married.) Mozart hated this woman, but nonetheless da Ponte prevailed on him to cast her as Fiordiligi in Così.
	www.pzweifel.com /music/lorenzo_da_ponte.htm (2624 words)

	PR Lorenzo Da Ponte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lorenzo Da Ponte was born Emanuele Conegliano in 1749 in the ghetto of the northern Italian town of Ceneda.
		Lorenzo Da Ponte was born Emanuele Conegliano on 10 March in Ceneda (today Vittorio Veneto), the eldest son of the leather merchant Geremia Conegliano and Rachele Pincherle.
		Lorenzo became a teacher of literature at the seminary and was appointed rector in 1772.
	www.jmw.at /en/pr_lorenzo_da_ponte.html (2513 words)

	Lorenzo Da Ponte - Mozart's Librettist. - MozartForum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Da Ponte was a man of conflicting personalities; on one hand he delighted in the life of pleasure, on the other hand he loved poetry and literature and there is no doubt that he was a teacher of genius.
		Da Ponte's first interview with Joseph II was not to ask a favour but to thank him for the appointment.
		Da Ponte: "Yes, but since I have written an opera and not a play, I have had to omit many scenes and shorten others, and I have omitted or shortened anything which might offend the delicacy and decency of spectacle at which Your Majesty would be present.
	www.mozartforum.com /VB_forum/showthread.php?t=495 (3882 words)

	Da Ponte, Lorenzo - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		DA PONTE, LORENZO [Da Ponte, Lorenzo], 1749-1838, Italian librettist and teacher, b.
		Da Ponte's last years were marred by poverty and the failure of the opera house.
		Lorenzo's Toil; How the son of an impoverished leatherworker came to write Mozart's libretti.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-dap1onte.html (486 words)

	Lorenzo Da Ponte
		The Italian translation, in octave, by Lorenzo Da Ponte of some chapters of the Gil Blas by Alain-Ren&erave; Lesage, entirely published for the first time since 1830, was composed by the octogenarian author from May 1827 to the beginning of 1829.
		Da Ponte was very satisfied with this work, as the reviewer of the "Antologia" Giuseppe Montani, who said in 1829 that the first Canto was "written with a very nice spontaneity".
		The last Da Ponte poetry is truly refined, and these four Cantos of Gil Blas, as the translation La profezia di Dante (1821) from Byron, are among his best compositions.
	www.mozartitalia.org /uk/news/LorenzoDaPonte.html (587 words)

	Amazon.ca: Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte: Books: Lorenzo Da Ponte,Charles Rosen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Da Ponte is known for his librettos to three Mozart masterpieces: Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte.
		Da Ponte's only real claim to fame is, of course, that he is the librettist of Mozart's three great comic operas.
		Da Ponte's story is less amusing than the description of a single flirtation in the truly interesting and picaresque memoirs of his friend Casanova.
	www.amazon.ca /Memoirs-Lorenzo-Da-Ponte/dp/0940322358 (1237 words)

	An Inveterate Self-Reinventor - July 31, 2006 - The New York Sun
		Lorenzo Da Ponte is known to us as the librettist of three Mozart operas: "The Marriage of Figaro," "Don Giovanni," and "Così fan tutte." Together they are known as "the Da Ponte operas." That's immortality.
		Da Ponte lived in four different places — Venice, Vienna, London, and New York — at key times in their histories.
		This "librettist of Venice" was born in 1749 — in the ghetto.
	www.nysun.com /article/37028 (475 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Arts: Unsung Hero: Behind the music of 'The Marriage of Figaro' is Lorenzo da Ponte
		Da Ponte, working from the play, was able to give Mozart a libretto that truly communicated the play." Buckley admires da Ponte for the poetic power of his language, which gave Mozart a "vehicle" to drive the story forward yet allowed room for his music.
		Lorenzo da Ponte was born neither a Lorenzo nor a da Ponte, but Emanuele Conegliano, the eldest son of Jewish parents living in Ceneda, Italy, in 1749.
		Da Ponte himself took the finished product directly to the emperor, insisting that he had "cut anything that might offend good taste or public decency." A few selections of the piece were played for the emperor.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2005-04-29/arts_feature3.html (755 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| Mozart's wordsmith
		Lorenzo Da Ponte, poet for three of the greatest of all operas, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte, survived a catalogue of such vagabondage - the Catholic priesthood, romantic love, heroic debt, flight from Habsburg policemen, bailiffs and husbands - as to have positively lived a libretto.
		Da Ponte's fitness to serve Mozart is made clear in another study.
		Da Ponte, though that late happy marriage would come, had suffered betrayals by a succession of dubious women which make the frailty of Fiordiligi and Dorabella seem playful.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/01/15/bohol07.xml (785 words)

	Lorenzo Da Ponte (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nel 1805, pieno di guai e di debiti, Da Ponte fu costretto a lasciare l'Europa e a recarsi in America, ove, primo fra gli italiani, fu un attento osservatore degli avvenimenti che si svolgevano nel vecchio continente, e un infaticabile sostenitore della cultura italiana.
		Se a Da Ponte il suo glorioso passato di librettista non fu in principio di grande aiuto per la società americana, peraltro, il crescente interesse per l'opera, almeno nei circoli culturalmente più avanzati della città di New York, cominciava a costituire un interessante motivo di orgoglio per il vecchio poeta.
		Da un quarto di secolo in America, e giunto ormai agli ottant'anni, Da Ponte era sempre molto attento sia agli echi di cronaca musicale che giungevano dall'Europa sia ai nuovi autori del Romanticismo.
	www.mozartitalia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /ita/news/LorenzoDaPonte.html (1055 words)

	ITV - Lorenzo Da Ponte
		By walking and talking the viewer through the streets, homes and public buildings associated with Da Ponte (and Mozart) in London, New York, Venice and Vienna, Holden discovers the trail of mystery and scandal Da Ponte left in his wake.
		We start with Da Ponte's humble beginnings in Ceneda, a picturesque hill-town above Venice where a Jewish boy named Emanuele Conegliano was born in 1749.
		The film traces Da Ponte's life from his ordination as a Catholic priest, friendship with Casanova and his many illicit affairs, critical acclaim with Mozart in Vienna, and the constant gambling and womanising that eventually led him to flee Europe for New York where he ended up as a grocer.
	www.itv.com /page.asp?partid=2398 (227 words)

	Antenati: Lorenzo Da Ponte:Le soste inquiete di un vagabondo geniale
		Nasce dunque il nostro Lorenzo nel 1749 a Ceneda, l’attuale Vittorio Veneto, e non col nome Lorenzo, né col cognome Da Ponte: si chiamava in verità Emmanuel Conegliano, di famiglia ebraica e viveva col padre Geremia e i fratelli Baruch e Anania nel piccolo ghetto – appena una decina di famiglie – di Ceneda.
		Così Lorenzo entra nel seminario, da subito indisciplinato e geniale, abilissimo a scrivere versi forse privi di particolare profondità, ma perfettamente idonei a riprodurre mimeticamente lo stile dei poeti che il giovane legge e impara a memoria con sorprendente facilità.
		Certo se non fosse stato Mozart a musicare i libretti di Da Ponte, non staremmo qui a parlarne, ma il poeta italiano fu in grado di corrispondere alla esigenze del musicista in modo straordinario e quasi in uno stato di grazia.
	www.girodivite.it /antenati/xviiisec/daponte_lorenzo/soste_inquiete.htm (2359 words)

	Lorenzo Da Ponte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lorenzo Da Ponte, renowned in Venice for his poetic improvisations, arrived in the “City of Tolerance” with a single letter of recommendation.
		The exhibition features numerous historical objects and works of art and looks at Da Ponte’s work and his legacy, which on closer inspection turns out to be increasingly involved with Mozart’s world.
		In the exhibition Da Ponte looks back on his life from New York, where he lived longer than anywhere else and also wrote his memoirs.
	www.jmw.at /en/lorenzo_da_ponte.html (607 words)

	NYRB: Lorenzo Da Ponte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838) was born Emanuele Conegliano, the son of a tanner in a Jewish ghetto near Venice.
		His father had the family baptized, changing their name to Da Ponte in honor of the local bishop, and enrolled his son in a seminary, where the young Da Ponte soon mastered Latin and the works of the great Italian poets.
		Da Ponte's long and exceptionally varied career led him across Europe and, eventually, to New York, where he died some years after opening the city's first opera house.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/7432 (108 words)

	Living Legacies
		In 1791 Mozart died and Da Ponte was dismissed by the new emperor.
		Da Ponte as his mistress for the sake of appearances, they moved to London, where for twelve years he wrote, play-doctored, libretto-doctored, translated, and ran a rare-book shop.
		The twenty years Da Ponte spent in the United States before he joined the College faculty were his usual combination of high living and misadventure.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/alumni/Magazine/Legacies/Beeson/Beeson.html (5803 words)

	Liber Liber: Biblioteca \| Autori D \| Da Ponte, Lorenzo
		Originario della comunità ebraica di Ceneda (oggi Vittorio Veneto), dove nacque nel 1749, Lorenzo Da Ponte si chiamava in verità Emanuele Conegliano, ma in seguito alla conversione del padre, tutta la famiglia prese il cognome del vescovo che l'aveva battezzata.
		Da questo momento il suo nome è legato indissolubilmente a quello di Mozart.
		Tagliato fuori dal prestigioso ambiente viennese, circondato dall'invidia dei suoi rivali, Da Ponte finì i suoi giorni dimenticato da tutti; si trasferì in Inghilterra e di là in America dove morì a New York nel 1838.
	www.liberliber.it /biblioteca/d/da_ponte (424 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Da Ponte, Lorenzo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lorenzo Da Ponte books Buy books by Lorenzo Da Ponte Used, new, and out of print books
		Da Ponte, Lorenzo DA PONTE, LORENZO [Da Ponte, Lorenzo], 1749-1838, Italian librettist and teacher, b.
		Bassano first studied with his father, Francesco da Ponte, and then went to Venice.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articlesnew/03433.html (469 words)

	Da Ponte Lorenzo (Emanuele Conegliano ) - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Da Ponte Lorenzo (Emanuele Conegliano) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Da Ponte, Lorenzo (Emanuele Conegliano) (1749–1838), Italian librettist, renowned for his collaborations with Austrian composer...
		Medici, Lorenzo de’, called The Magnificent (1449-92), Italian banker and statesman, who was a leading patron of art and scholarship during the...
	encarta.msn.com /Da_Ponte_Lorenzo_(Emanuele_Conegliano_).html (149 words)

	Anecdote - Lorenzo [born Emanuele Conegliano] Da Ponte - Lorenzo Da Ponte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The libretto for Don Giovanni (Mozart's opera about the legendary lover Don Juan) was written in 1787 by Lorenzo Da Ponte while he was sequestered in a room of a wealthy patron's home.
		Another room contained a young woman, whose services Da Ponte could solicit with the ring of a bell.
		Da Ponte, Lorenzo [born Emanuele Conegliano] (1749-1838) Italian priest, poet, adventurer, and educator [noted for his libretti for Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan Tutte (1790)]
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=7782 (216 words)

	Lorenzo Da Ponte: In Honor Of His 250th Birthday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Mozart wrote his letter, Lorenzo DaPonte was court poet and librettist to the Imperial Theatre in Vienna.
		DaPonte was a learned man, a writer whose flair for the dramatic extended to the many roles he played in his personal life: renegade priest, friend of Casanova, professor of humanities, violinist, gambler and political rebel.
		Young Lorenzo wrote poetry early on, and he taught literature at a seminary.
	www.unitel.de /uhilites/150899.htm (780 words)

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