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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 a Venetian, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lorenzo Da Ponte has received more than 408,608 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Lorenzo Da Ponte is the 623rd most popular writer (down from 519th in 2019), the 780th most popular biography from Italy (down from 616th in 2019) and the 52nd 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

Among writers, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 623 out of 5,755Before him are Maurice Blanchot, Sin Saimdang, John Bunyan, Daphne du Maurier, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Nikolay Chernyshevsky. After him are Georg Büchner, Robert Ludlum, Ivan Franko, John Irving, Edward Bernays, and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 10Before him are Christian VII of Denmark, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Nicolas Appert, Domenico Cimarosa, Yolande de Polastron, and Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe. After him are Daniel Rutherford, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Vittorio Alfieri, Abraham Gottlob Werner, and Alexander Radishchev. Among people deceased in 1838, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 3Before him are Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord and Adelbert von Chamisso. After him are Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Pierre Louis Dulong, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Johanna Schopenhauer, Ferdinand Ries, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Bernard Courtois, and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 780 out of 4,668Before him are Scholastica (480), Aldo Rossi (1931), Giacomo Balla (1871), Lodovico Ferrari (1522), Vitiges (475), and Francesco Cavalli (1602). After him are Pope Leo V (870), Lucius Cornelius Cinna (-135), Ferruccio Busoni (1866), Charles Martel of Anjou (1271), Lorenzo Lotto (1480), and Peter, King of Hungary (1011).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 52Before him are Aulus Gellius (123), Theocritus (-315), Dino Buzzati (1906), Salvatore Quasimodo (1901), Pietro Metastasio (1698), and Alessandro Manzoni (1785). After him are Poliziano (1454), Carlo Gozzi (1720), Curzio Malaparte (1898), Andrea Camilleri (1925), Giosuè Carducci (1835), and Giambattista Basile (1566).