LORENZO DA PONTE: THE ADVENTURES OF MOZART’S LIBRETTIST IN THE OLD AND NEW WORLDS

Book ID/图书代码： 02000005B10486

English Summary/英文概要： In the first forty years of his life he had converted from Judaism to Christianity, been a poet, priest, lover and livertine, a friend of Casanova, a favourite of Emperor Joseph 2. By the end of his life he had founded New York’s first opera house and achieved his second life’s ambition, to become the first Professor of Italian at Columbia University.
Da Ponte loved wholeheartedly but recklessly, yet had the wit to woo and win his resourceful and long-suffering English wife Nancy. An inspired innovator and impresario, he was a hopeless businessman, and in London lost all his money. What was worse, he almost lost Nancy as well, who set off to the New World to make a new life. Brokenhearted, Da Ponte fowwowed her after less than a year and their American adventure began.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在da Ponte的头四十年里，他从犹太教转而信奉基督教，他是一名诗人、神父、自由思想家，Casanova（意大利冒险家，以风流倜傥出名，在其法文的回忆录中，描述受当时道德观束缚的世界主义人士的感想，为欧洲18世纪的主要文化史）的好友，约瑟二世最喜欢的臣子之一。在da Ponte生命最后的一段日子里，他创建了纽约的歌剧院，完成了他人生的第二个心愿，成为哥伦比亚大学的第一位意大利教授。
da Ponte对爱情全身心投入，但有时有些冲动卤莽，他风趣幽默的性格帮他艰难的赢得了英国新娘Nancy的芳心。da Ponte是位聪明的改革者和剧院经理人，但他却是个失意的生意人，在伦敦败光了他所有的财产。更糟的是，他也失去了Nancy，Nancy去了一个新地方开始全新的生活。更让人心碎的是，da Ponte用一年多的时间紧追Nancy到了美国，他们的美国冒险之旅也就这样开始了...

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