Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte

New York: Dover Publications, [1967]. x, 512 pages: illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 22 cm. Very good(+). Tight and clean with minor wear to wraps. . Paperback.

"This Dover edition is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published in 1929." // “Lorenzo Da Ponte (né Emanuele Conegliano; 1749 – 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. Da Ponte was also a close friend of Mozart and Casanova.”—Wikipedia