Da Ponte
[ duh pon-tee; Italian dah pawn-te ]
/ də ˈpɒn ti; Italian dɑ ˈpɔn tɛ /
noun
Lo·ren·zo
[luh-ren-zoh, law-, loh-; Italian law-ren-dzaw] /ləˈrɛn zoʊ, lɔ-, loʊ-; Italian lɔˈrɛn dzɔ/, Emanuele Conegliano,1749–1838,
Italian librettist and teacher of Italian, in the U.S. after 1805.
British Dictionary definitions for da ponte
Da Ponte
/ (Italian dɑ ˈpɔnte) /
noun
Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Cosi fan tutte (1790)