The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte--Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impre 9781596919822, 1596919825

The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte--Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impre 9781596919822, 1596919825

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Lorenzo Da Ponte Poet and Adventurer 9780231885829

Studies the life of Lorenzo Da Ponte as a poet, but also a teacher, and one of the foremost pioneers of Italian culture

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Ireland's Minstrel: A Life of Tom Moore: Poet, Patriot and Byron’s Friend 9780755622078, 9781845112523

He will live in his "Irish Melodies", they will go down to posterity with the music; both will last as long as

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Shylock’s Venice - The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto 9781399407267, 9781399407274, 9781399407250

Millions of visitors flood to Venice every year. Yet many are unaware of its history – one of dramatic expansion but als

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Chaucer: The Life and Times of the First English Poet

'A genuinely fascinating book, the best kind of popular history' Literary Review This first, and some would

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Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library) 9781442637146, 1442637145

The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and

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The Operas of Benjamin Britten 9780231887564

Provides a reference work and record of the original stage realizations of Britten's operas including all sixteen l

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Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas 9780520932968

Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni’s story the only one—or even the most interesting one—in th

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Lama of the Gobi: The Life and Times of Danzan Rabjaa, Mongolia's Greatest Mystical Poet 1599719053

Danzan Rabjaa (1803-1856), officially known as the Fifth Noyon Incarnate Lama of the Gobi, is perhaps Mongolia's mo

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Italian Venice: A History 9780300210118

In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice—not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fal

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