1749 - 1838
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, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 623 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1907 - 2003
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 617
1504 - 1551
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 618
1628 - 1688
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 619
1907 - 1989
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 620
1648 - 1695
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 621
1828 - 1889
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 622
1749 - 1838
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 623
1813 - 1837
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 624
1927 - 2001
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 625
1856 - 1916
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 626
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 627
1891 - 1995
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 628
1883 - 1945
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 629
Among people born in 1749, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 10. Before 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 3. Before 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.
1749 - 1808
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 4
1749 - 1791
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 5
1749 - 1841
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 6
1749 - 1801
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 7
1749 - 1793
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 8
1749 - 1792
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 9
1749 - 1838
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 10
1749 - 1819
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 11
1749 - 1822
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 12
1749 - 1803
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 13
1749 - 1803
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 14
1749 - 1817
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 15
1749 - 1802
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 16
1754 - 1838
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 1
1781 - 1838
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 2
1749 - 1838
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 3
1774 - 1838
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 4
1759 - 1838
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 5
1785 - 1838
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 6
1769 - 1838
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 7
1766 - 1838
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 8
1784 - 1838
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 9
1758 - 1838
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 10
1777 - 1838
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 11
1772 - 1838
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 12
Among people born in Italy, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 780 out of 4,668. Before 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).
480 - 547
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 774
1931 - 1997
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 775
1871 - 1958
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 776
1522 - 1565
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 777
475 - 542
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 778
1602 - 1676
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 779
1749 - 1838
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 780
870 - 905
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 781
135 BC - 84 BC
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 782
1866 - 1924
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 783
1271 - 1295
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 784
1480 - 1556
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 785
1011 - 1050
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 786
Among writers born in Italy, Lorenzo Da Ponte ranks 52. Before 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).
123 - 180
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 46
315 BC - 260 BC
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 47
1906 - 1972
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 48
1901 - 1968
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 49
1698 - 1782
HPI: 65.12
Rank: 50
1785 - 1873
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 51
1749 - 1838
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 52
1454 - 1494
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 53
1720 - 1806
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 54
1898 - 1957
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 55
1925 - 2019
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 56
1835 - 1907
HPI: 64.15
Rank: 57
1566 - 1632
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 58