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mustrations Lorenzo Da Ponte as a young man Ceneda piazza around the middle of the eighteenth century Bishop Lorenzo Da Ponte The Da Ponte family house, according to local tradition Joseph II (Mary Evans Picture Library) The Burgtheater, Vienna (Musee des Beaux-Arts, Budapest) Anton Salieri (Archiv des Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Reproduced by courtesy of the Royal Opera House) Nancy Storace (Reproduced by courtesy of the Royal Opera House) Adriana Gabrieli del Bene, 'La Ferrarese' (Bildarchiv des Oesterreichischen Nationalbibliothek) Leopold II (Mary Evans Picture Library) Nancy Da Ponte King's Theatre, Haymarket (Mary Evans Picture Library) Brigida Banti (Reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum) Fanny Da Ponte Park Theatre, New York Da Ponte's appeal for Italian pupils Da Ponte in old age For Clarissa with my love ...

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