[duh pon-tee; It. dah pawn-te] 
Lo⋅ren⋅zo [luh-ren-zoh, law-, loh-; It. law-ren-dzaw] , (Emanuele Conegliano ), 1749–1838, Italian librettist and teacher of Italian, in the U.S. after 1805. |
| Da Pon·te (də pŏn'tē, dä pōn'tě) Italian-born American poet and educator who wrote librettos for Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan Tutte (1790). |