He was born Emmanuele Conegliano, but converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism, and became a professor of rhetoric at Treviso.
He was born Emmanuele Conegliano, but converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism, and became a professor of rhetoric at Treviso. He sold boots in London before coming to America in 1805, where he worked as a grocer before becoming professor of Italian literature at Columbia. FTP, name this poet, who worked for the Vienna Court Opera in the 1780s, writing the libretti for Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, and The Marriage of Figaro.
He was born Emmanuele Conegliano, but converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism, and became a professor of rhetoric at Treviso.
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