WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lorenzo Da Ponte has received more than 443,962 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Lorenzo Da Ponte is the 537th most popular writer (up from 622nd in 2019), the 672nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 778th in 2019) and the 47th 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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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 537 out of 7,302. Before him are Tyrtaeus, Robert Walser, Franz Werfel, Jacob L. Moreno, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Kazuo Ishiguro. After him are Paul Claudel, T. S. Eliot, Bai Juyi, Gaston Leroux, Saint Naum, and Petar II Petrović-Njegoš.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 9. Before him are Edward Jenner, Christian VII of Denmark, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Nicolas Appert, Yolande de Polastron, and Domenico Cimarosa. After him are Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Daniel Rutherford, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Abraham Gottlob Werner, and Vittorio Alfieri. Among people deceased in 1838, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 2. Before him is Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. After him are Adelbert von Chamisso, Johanna Schopenhauer, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Bernard Courtois, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Pierre Louis Dulong, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Ferdinand Ries, and Bernhard Crusell.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 672 out of 5,161. Before him are Catherine Cornaro (1454), Pope Donus (610), Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (1810), Franco Baresi (1960), Pope Romanus (850), and Henry of Germany (1211). After him are Gianni Rivera (1943), Pietro da Cortona (1596), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Patrizia Reggiani (1948), Palmiro Togliatti (1893), and Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (1510).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 47. Before him are Livius Andronicus (-280), Alessandro Manzoni (1785), Baldassare Castiglione (1478), Statius (40), Gabriele Amorth (1925), and Aulus Gellius (123). After him are Eugenio Montale (1896), Dino Buzzati (1906), Cassiodorus (487), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896), Poliziano (1454), and Curzio Malaparte (1898).

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