Vulgar words in Chapters of Opera - Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time (Page 1)
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In this pamphlet, which is not only indecorous but indecent, he is referred to as "the celebrated Lorenzo Daponte, who after having been Jew, Christian, priest, and poet in Italy and Germany found himself to be a layman, husband, and ass in London."
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The chorus always sang in the "soft bastard Latin," whether the principals sang in Italian or French; and the occasions were not a few when two languages were sung also by the principals--when lovers wooed in French, and received their replies in Italian, thus recalling things over which Addison made merry generations ago.