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1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Originally published: London : Grafton Books, 1985. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-265) and index. |
Summary |
Three of the greatest operas ever written & mdash;The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cos fan tutte & mdash;join the exquisite music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the perfectly matched libretti of Lorenzo Da Ponte. Da Ponte & rsquo;s own long life (1749 & ndash;1838), however, was more fantastic than any opera plot. A poor Jew who became a Catholic priest; a priest who became a young gambler and rake; a teacher, poet, and librettist of genius who became a Pennsylvania greengrocer; an impoverished immigrant to America who became professor of Italian at Columbia University & mdash;wherever Da Ponte went, he arrived a penniless fugitive and made a new and eventful life. Sheila Hodges follows him from the last glittering years of the Venetian Republic to the Vienna of Mozart and Salieri, and from George III & rsquo;s London to New York City. |
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Lorenzo Da Ponte 1. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.
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Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. |
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Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. |
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Da Ponte, Lorenzo. |
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Librettists -- Biography.
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Librettists. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Hodges, Sheila. Lorenzo Da Ponte. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2002 0299178749 9780299178741 (DLC) 2002018747 (OCoLC)48857893 |
ISBN |
9780299178734 (electronic book) |
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0299178730 (electronic book) |
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9780299178741 |
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0299178749 |
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0299178749 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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