Danner, Joel B
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1850 to 1851.
DA PONTE, LORENZO, dramatist, author, was born March 10, 1749, in Venice, Italy. He was an Italian dramatist who furnished libretti for Mozart's operas, Don Giovanni and Nozze di Figaro. He came to America in 1805, and after 1828 was professor of Italian in Columbia college.
He published his own Life; and History of the Florentine Republic and the Medici. He died Aug. 17, 1838, in New York city.