 She was a member of the "coro", or music school, of Venice's Ospedale della Pietà during the tenure of as music director.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been a tuition-paying student, or would have been awarded a scholarship.As a composer, Da Ponte is known only from an unpublished set of four dances included in a collection of "monferrine" and composed around 1775; the manuscript is held in the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello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.