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Lorenzo Da Ponte

1749 - 1838

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Lorenzo Da Ponte (né Emanuele Conegliano; 10 March 1749 – 17 August 1838) was an Italian, later American, opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest. He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celebrated operas: The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790). He was the first professor of Italian literature at Columbia University, and with Manuel Garcia, the first to introduce Italian opera to America. Da Ponte was also a close friend of Mozart and Casanova. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lorenzo Da Ponte is the 705th most popular writer (down from 537th in 2019), the 871st most popular biography from Italy (down from 672nd in 2019) and the 61st most popular Italian Writer.

Lorenzo da Ponte was an Italian poet, librettist, translator, and teacher. He is most famous for writing the libretto for Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" as well as the libretto for "The Marriage of Figaro."

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Among writers, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 705 out of 7,302Before him are Thomas Friedman, Eugène Sue, Dietrich Eckart, Matthew Lewis, Stieg Larsson, and Pavel Jozef Šafárik. After him are Georg Büchner, Multatuli, Cassiodorus, Patrick White, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Clarice Lispector.

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Among people born in 1749, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 10Before him are Nicolas Appert, Christian VII of Denmark, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Domenico Cimarosa, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, and Yolande de Polastron. After him are Daniel Rutherford, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Vittorio Alfieri, and Alexander Radishchev. Among people deceased in 1838, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 4Before him are Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, William Clark, and Adelbert von Chamisso. After him are Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Johanna Schopenhauer, Pierre Louis Dulong, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Bernard Courtois, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, and Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 871 out of 5,161Before him are Roberto Mancini (1964), Andrew III of Hungary (1265), Antonio Tabucchi (1943), Francesco Cavalli (1602), Antipope Felix II (300), and Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (1503). After him are Cassiodorus (487), Annibale de Gasparis (1819), Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608), Giulia Farnese (1474), Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351), and Phalaris (-700).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 61Before him are Gaius Valerius Flaccus (45), Curzio Malaparte (1898), Carlo Gozzi (1720), Pietro Metastasio (1698), Vittoria Colonna (1490), and Antonio Tabucchi (1943). After him are Cassiodorus (487), Epicharmus of Kos (-524), Pietro Bembo (1470), Emilio Salgari (1862), Natalia Ginzburg (1916), and Theognis of Megara (-570).