Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Life and Times of Mozart’s Librettist

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Index Accademia degli Arcadi, 38 Alfieri, Vittorio, 58, 156, 176, 197, 199 Allegranti, Maddalena, 157-8 Anderson, Henry James, 198, 212, 222; marries Fanny Da P, 188,211; praises Da P's cataloguing, 199 Anfossi, Pasquale, 35, 194 Angiola see Tiepolo, Angiola Angioletta see Bellaudi, Angioletta Anti-Da Ponte, III Antologia of Florence, 104, 119,201,203 Ariosto, Lodovico: Orlandofurioso, 159, 161 Auersperg, Prince von, 105-6 Badini, Carlo Francesco, 131-2, 133, 134, 143 Bagioli, 215, 222; Hymn to America, 215n Baglioni, Antonio, 206 Banti, Brigida, 145, 156, 157, 159n, 160; engaged for King's Theatre, 139--42; VigeeLe Brun on, 140; and William Taylor, 146-9; has her twelfth child, 158; leaves England, 166 Barbarigo, Agostino, 125 Barbarigo, Pietro, 33-4, 125 Barnabotti, 14-15, 27, 31 Bassi, Luigi, 88 Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de: Le mariage de Figaro, 66, 68-9, 87; Tarare,8a-l, 93-4 Bedford, Duke of, 132 Bellaudi, Angioletta, 28-34 passim, 84, 152, 154-5 Bellaudi, Carlo, 28-34 passim, 154-5 Bellaudi, Laura, 29 Bellini, Vincenzo: Ii pirata, 214 Bene, Adriana Francesca del see Gabrieli, Adriana Francesca del Bene Bene, Luigi del: marries Adriana Gabrieli ('La Ferrarese'), 83 and n; and papal consulship, 112, 123-4; Da P betrays, 124-5, 127 Benucci, Francesco, 46, 98, 113 Bertati, Giovanni, 63, 112, 131, 195n; and Ii ricco d'un giorno, 52; appointed poet to Burgtheater, 123; Da P visits, 127; Don Giovanni (Gazzaniga), 84, 92, 139 Bianchi, Francesco: Semiramide, 141-2, 165; Antigona, 145; Il consiglio imprudente, 149, 165; Merope, 150; Cinna, 150; Armida, 166 bilancia teatrale, La, 133 Billington, Elizabeth, 165-7 passim, 171, 196 Bishop, (Sir) Henry Rowley, 191, 193 Bland, Maria Teresa, 196 Boetzelaer, General van den, 128, 134 Bonaiuti, Serafino, 145, 164-5 Bonaparte, Joseph, ex-King of Spain, 189, 192, 208 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 152-4, 159, 208 Bondini, Caterina, 88-91 passim Bondlini, Pasquale, 88-91 passim Bortoluzzi, Dom Pietro, 6 Bossange (Paris booksellers), 188 Braham,John, 146, 150, 167; in Una cosa rara, 171l; in Don Giovanni, 196 Brigido, Count Pompeo, 118, 122,202 Brunati, Gaetano: Il Bertoido, 80 'Buranello, II' (Baldassare Galuppi), 194 and n Burgtheater, 46, 62, 106, 111, 195; repertory system at, 58; dismissal of Italian company, 95-8; and Joseph Irs illness, 103; intrigues at, 107-9, 114-16; Da P's plan for, 122, 214; Da P's libretti for, 171; see also under Da Ponte, Lorenzo Burney, Charles, 26; on music in Venice, 14; on Casti, 53; on Adriana Gabrieli, 14, 83 Bussani, Dorotea, 108, 119, 122 Bussani, Francesco, Ill, 116, 119, 122; and Le nozze di Figaro, 67; Da P identifies as enerny, 108; spreads slander about Da P, 109 and n Byron, Lord: The Prophecy ofDante, 186-7 caffe de~gi' Italiani, 130, 158-9, 246 caffi de' ieUerati, 15 Cagliari of Altivole, Abbe, 6 'Calliope', Da P's, 81, 105, 117, 122 Calvesi, Vincenzo, Ill, 113 Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales (later Queen of England), 145, 150,163, 184 Casanova da Seingalt, Giovanni J acopo (Giacomo), 26, 37, 104, 118; correspondence with Zaguri, 24, 83, 125, 129, 133; on Casti, 52-3; and joseph II, 53n; and Da P in Vienna, 54, 55; and Don Giovanni (Mozart), 85-92 passim; Da P's letters to, 11 7, 131, 132-5; advice on England, 130-1, 147; and Maddalena Allegranti, 157; I hei capelli di Silvia, 54 Casati, Marco Antonio, 183-4 Casti, Abbe Giovanni Battista, 48, 77, 126; Da P's rhyming letter to, 51, 70; Casanova and Burney on, 52-3; intrigues against Da P, 54, 56-7, 71; and If hurhero di huon cuore, 57, 59; and Le nozze di Figaro, 66-8; Da P . on, 70-1,89, 194; and Una cosa rara, 76, 77; appointed court poet, 123; dies, 159; If re Teodoro in Venezia, 53, 154; Prima la musica e poi fe parole, 71-2, 96n; Poema tartaro, 72; Gli animali parlanti, 159 castrali, 146 and n Catherine, Empress of Russia, 72, 89 Cavalieri, Catarina, 107 cavalieri serventi, 13 and n, 18 Cesarotti, Melchiore, 27 Cimarosa, Domenico, 35; L'ape musicale, 98; Ii matrimonio segreto, 138-9; Ii capriccio drammatico, 139, 165; Laprova deil'opera, 139 Classici Italiani di Milano, 181 and n Clossey, Louisa see Da Ponte, Louisa Clossey, Matilda (Da P's granddaughter), 179, 189, 196n, 212-3, 220 Clossey, Miles Franklin, 177, 179, 189, 213 Cobenzl, Count Guidobaldi di, 37, 38,40 Cobenzl, Count Philipp von, 37, 40...