Generations on, Lorenzo Da Ponte’s family keeps alive the memory of this poet and libertine, who ended up in the middle of Pennsylvania after being booted from Venice and Vienna.
In June, Alex Da Ponte drove to Sunbury, Pa., to visit the town where one of his ancestors had run a grocery store. That grocer, Lorenzo Da Ponte, also happened to be Mozart’s most important librettist, a protégé of the Austrian emperor and companion... [1179 chars]