Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte

By Lorenzo Da Ponte

Book Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940322358
• ISBN13: 9780940322356
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Fourth rate

I trawled my way through this book as I usually like to start what I finish, but, my, it was hard going. The first half particularly is basically a lot of score settling which comes across as being so irrelevant especially now two centuries later. Half the time, my mind wandered and I just found the whole thing difficult to follow. Da Ponte seems full of self-pity and perhaps a justified sense of victimhood. Anyone would think he was a failure!