tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post8512518363823330551..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: For Lovers of a Good BeaumarchaisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-91308457664504350052012-01-20T10:15:43.632-05:002012-01-20T10:15:43.632-05:00Actually, The Marriage of Figaro was adapted by Lo...Actually, The Marriage of Figaro was adapted by Lorenzo da Ponte who translated it into Italian and removed the political references. Da Ponte is a fascinating character who later emigrated to the United States to escape his creditors in London and ran a grocery store and distillery in Pennsylvania. Those enterprises failed and he moved to New York where he became the first professor of Italian Literature at Columbia. Born a Jew, he converted to Catholicism and became the first Roman Catholic priest appointed to the faculty at Columbia. He died at roughly ninety years of age a naturalized American citizen. His funeral in New York was enormous.EJWiteknoreply@blogger.com