{"product_id":"9781465376510","title":"Mozart's Rabbi: The American Adventures of Lorenzo Da Ponte","description":"Lorenzo Da Ponte, poet, scholar, librettist and self-proclaimed champion of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, finds himself at the end of the eighteenth century a financial and artistic failure.   A conversation with his friend Casanova inspires him to restore both his fortune and reputation in America. After a dispiriting voyage he lands in New York and in a bookshop on Broadway meets and befriends Clement Moore, influential clergyman and future author of “Night Before Christmas”. Moore introduces his “foreign genius” to culture-starved New Yorkers to whom Da Ponte recalls his experiences, professional and personal, of Mozart.        With Moore as his American “patron” Da Ponte founds a school for young gentlemen and opens to them the classics and the world of Italian literature. He becomes a member of a literary club and is induced to fight a duel with a jealous fellow member and would-be critic. He survives the historic cholera epidemic in New York in the 1820s and finally finds his life- ambition in America by bringing opera performances to New York and laying the foundations for the first theater in the country built exclusively for opera.","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176175124720,"sku":"9781465376510","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781465376510_p0.jpg?v=1763684231","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781465376510","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}