Classify Lorenzo da Ponte

[Smeagol]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Da_Ponte

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Lorenzo_da_Ponte.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/07/24/books/mars2.190.jpg

http://www.pileface.com/sollers/IMG/jpg/lorenzo_da_ponte_portrait.jpg

http://media.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2006/jul/librettist/daponte200-da560c1cccf8358b12096ef9a6db

[YeshAtid]

Certainly lacks the Jewish look,nordid perhaps?

[NORWORLD]

Dinaric plus alpine. Is the third painting supposed to be of the same person?? Looks totally different than the first two!

[Smeagol]

Certainly lacks the Jewish look,nordid perhaps?

Looks more Dinarid, and he was fair so Norid with some Alpinid, and Atlantomediterranid influences.

[just]

The last pic looks totally diffrent from other ones..

[YeshAtid]

Looks more Dinarid, and he was fair so Norid with some Alpinid, and Atlantomediterranid influences.

He wasn't fully Jewish, was he?

[Smeagol]

He wasn't fully Jewish, was he?

He was.

[Damião de Góis]

What's with the portuguese surname? Isn't he supposed to be italian?

[Smeagol]

What's with the portuguese surname? Isn't he supposed to be italian?

He was a Sephardic Jew from Venice.

[NORWORLD]

Again, picture 2 and 3 look like two completely different people.

[curiousman]

What's with the portuguese surname? Isn't he supposed to be italian?

He was born Jewish (surname Conegliano) but when he converted to Catholicism he took the surname Da Ponte (not so a common but anyway Italian surname) from the bishop who baptized him.

[oh-nahhh]

Noric.