by Jacqueline Monsigny · J'ai lu · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782290048696
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«Lorenzo le Magnifique» is the fictionalized biography by Jacqueline Monsigny, published by J'ai lu in paperback (411 pages, in French).
Born Emmanuel Conegliano into a Jewish family in Venice, Lorenzo Da Ponte was adopted by a bishop and ordained as a priest. He travels across eighteenth-century Europe between wealth and poverty, glory and prison. A friend of Mozart, he wrote the librettos for The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte; he knew Casanova, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Published in French in 1998, the work falls under the categories of Literature and Fiction and History.
For readers of fictionalized biographies, especially those interested in Mozart, opera and eighteenth-century Europe.
