Lorenzo's Toil; How the son of an impoverished leatherworker came to write Mozart's libretti. From: The Washington Post | Date: July 16, 2006| Author: Reviewed by Jonathon Keats | Copyright 2006 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

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 an...

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