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Memoirs
Lorenzo Da Ponte
出版
New York Review Books
, 2000-05-31
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Business
Biography & Autobiography / Music
Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / Educators
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Literary Collections / Letters
Music / Genres & Styles / Opera
Music / Individual Composer & Musician
ISBN
0940322358
9780940322356
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=g8cIAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Plot and counterplot lie at the heart of
Don Giovanni
,
Così fan tutte
, and
The Marriage of Figaro
, the three brilliant libretti that Lorenzo Da Ponte prepared for Mozart. They were also central to Da Ponte's own extraordinary life. His
Memoirs
record a fantastic variety of romantic, political, and professional intrigues, and tell of meetings with a host of remarkable men. In a life that took him from the canals of Venice to the streets of New York, Da Ponte was at different times priest, professional gambler, proprietor of a bordello, political agitator, court poet, impresario, grocery store owner, and the first professor of Italian literature at Columbia University. His
Memoirs
, a minor classic of Italian literature, are the picaresque and engrossing story of a man of enormous talent and unsurpassed flair who was, above all, an indefatigable survivor.
"I shall speak of things . . . so singular in their oddity as in some manner to instruct, or at least entertain, without wearying." —Lorenzo da Ponte