 Her origins are unknown, but her surname indicates that she was a member of a patrician family and not a foundling, as were most of the Ospidale's students; consequently, she would have been a tuition-paying student, or would have been awarded a scholarship.As a composer, Da Ponte is known only from an unpublished set of four dances included in a collection of "monferrine" and composed around 1775; the manuscript is held in the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello in Venice.Da Ponte is one of five composers known to have emerged from the "coro" of the Ospedale; the others include Anna Bon and the foundlings Agata, Michielina, and Santa della Pietà.