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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. New York: The Orion Press, 1959. 277 pages; 25 b&w illustrations. "Mozart's librettist (and friend), Casanova's friend, the first Professor of Italian Literature at Columbia University." Reads like a novel with a stream of characters and places that the author encounters. Clean throughout; binding tight; boards darkened on edges. Jacket chipped with some material loss at extremities. Embossed Quarter Cloth. Very Good/Good. 10" x 7".

Royal octavo, white cloth & yellow boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xxi, 277 pp. Good+, with former-owner signature and foxing (age darkened spotting) in a Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: Mozart's librettist, friend and libertine comrade of Casanova, poet to His Imperial and Royal Majesty, Joseph of Hapsburg, banished refugee from many capitals of Europe, founder of the Italian Opera House in New York -- Lorenzo Da Ponte was a man of diverse talents and rare vitality. Born in Italy in 1749, he spent the last thirty years of his life in nineteenth century New York, as a distiller, bookseller and first Professor of Italian Literature at Columbia University. An adventurer, perhaps a rogue, Da Ponte is nevertheless a gifted representative of an extraordinary period of history. These memoirs, written in Italian and first published in New York, have long been unavailable in English. Sometimes ribald, often incredible, they are always imbued with a joy of living which makes them delightful to read. Their appearance is of importance to musicians, historians, and all those interested in the robust life of a romantic age. In addition to the famous Arthur Livingston notes and a lively preface by Professor Thomas G. Bergin of Yale University, the volume is richly illustrated with prints documenting the life of this remarkable man. Performing Arts, Music, New York, Biography, Culture bslic.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Frontispiece (illustratore). 2nd Edition. Xxi, 277 Pp. White And Yellow Cloth Stamped In Gilt. First Printing Of This Second Edition, Retaining Some Of Livingston's Notes That Supplement The Author's Account, With A New Introduction By Bergin. Very Near Fine In A Near Fine Dj With A 1/4" Chip At Bottom Of Front Spine Edge.

Paperback. Condizione: Very good(+). x, 512 pages: illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 22 cm. "This Dover edition is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published in 1929." // ?Lorenzo Da Ponte (n? Emanuele Conegliano; 1749 ? 1838) was an Italian, later American, opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest. He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celebrated operas: The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Cos? fan tutte (1790). He was the first professor of Italian literature at Columbia University, and with Manuel Garcia, the first to introduce Italian opera to America. Da Ponte was also a close friend of Mozart and Casanova.??Wikipedia. Very good(+). Tight and clean with minor wear to wraps.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Covers have some slight edge creasing and are slightly smudged. Sticker with initials of the recipient, Chauncey Tinker, on the inside of the front cover. ; Approx. 5 1/2" wide by 8 1/2". Inscribed on the half-title page in red pencil by the author "For Tink who was with me in Parco Grifeo - et ubique for that matter. Tom". Signed with first name only. Tink was Chauncey Tinker. Included is a handwritten letter from the author to Tink, signed with first name only. On letterhead of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Department of English, dated June 11, '47. Letter has creasing and browning to the upper and right margins, and is folded horizontally. ; 57 pages.

1962 [imprimatur] 431 pages library marks binding (fair) pages (good).