Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)
Da Ponte in American English
(də ˈpɑnti, Italian dɑː ˈpɔnte)
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Lorenzo (ləˈrenzou, lɔ-, lou-, Italian lɔˈʀendzɔ) (Emanuele Conegliano), 1749–1838, Italian librettist and teacher of Italian, in the U.S. after 1805