{"product_id":"the-man-who-wrote-mozart-the-extraordinary-life-of-lorenzo-da-ponte","title":"The Man Who Wrote Mozart: The Extraordinary Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn June 1805  a 56-year-old Italian immigrant disembarked in Philadelphia carrying only a violin. Before dying in New York 23 years later  in his ninetieth year  he would find New World respectability as a bookseller  then as the first professor of Italian at Columbia University. Abb Lorenzo da Ponte  a scholarly poet  teacher and priest  with a devoted wife  also had a reputation as a womanizer. He charmed all he met  pioneering the place of Italian music in American life. But his self-assurance also excited mistrust. When the first Italian opera was performed in New York in 1825  he had the nerve to claim he had written it. He had  so he said  known Mozart. Like the memoirs he had recently written to pay off more debts  the old man was so full of tall stories. The many lives of Lorenzo da Pontelibrettist of Mozarts three great operas  The Marriage of Figaro  Don Giovanni  and Cosi Fan Tuttebegin in Venice  linger in Vienna and London and wind up in New York  where today he lies buried in an unmarked grave in one of the worlds largest cemeteries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949569437749,"sku":"ByrdShop_0297850806","price":39.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780297850809.jpg?v=1770911450","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-man-who-wrote-mozart-the-extraordinary-life-of-lorenzo-da-ponte","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}