Grovemusic.com WWW site, 09-23-03 (Da Ponte, Lorenzo (Conegliano, Emmanuele); b. Ceneda (now Vittorio Veneto), 10 Mar. 1749; d. New York, 17 Aug. 1838; Italian librettist; b. Emmanuele Conegliano, Da Ponte adopted the name of the bishop of Ceneda, Lorenzo da Ponte, when his father, a Jewish tanner, converted to Christianity in 1763)