Antonio da Ponte (1512-1595) was an Italian engineer most famous for his rebuilding the Rialto Bridge in Venice. After the original wooden structure had collapsed repeatedly, his design was selected in a contest held by the local authorities. Though he is relatively unknown otherwise, the design for the Venice landmark defeated submissions by other noted architects of the time, including Michelangelo. used at File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... used at File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1512 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 30 - William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time. ... The Rialto Bridge Rialto Bridge The Rialto Bridge (Italian: Ponte di Rialto) The Rialto Bridge (Italian: Ponte di Rialto) spans the Grand Canal in Venice. ... Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia), nicknamed the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice in Italy. ... Chalk portrait of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet. ...
It was in 1783 that DaPonte met the young, unemployed and impoverished composer from Salzburg.
DaPonte and Mozart were the twin pillars of that crucial transition, transforming opera into an art form exploring central human issues in a potent, accessible but above all realistic manner, via characters the audience could recognise, and with whom they could identify.
DaPonte's remains were lost in the process, but a tombstone was finally erected in 1987 beneath the jets roaring into JFK.
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