Lorenzo's Toil; How the son of an impoverished leatherworker came to write Mozart's libretti.

The Washington Post | July 16, 2006| | Copyright

THE LIBRETTIST OF VENICE

The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte,

Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and

Italian Opera's Impresario in America

By Rodney Bolt

Bloomsbury. 428 pp. $29.95

In 1805, a toothless 55-year-old immigrant named Lorenzo Da Ponte opened a grocery store in New York City. He wasn't especially skilled at the business, having never before attempted anything quite like it: In Vienna, draped in silks and furs, he'd served as poet and librettist to the Holy Roman Emperor.

That he'd been born in a Jewish ghetto near Venice, the son of an impoverished leatherworker, only makes ...

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