Recs if you like The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impresario in America...
Classical Music Non-Fiction
Opera, orchestral works, and oratorios...this list delves deep into them.
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Polymath Training Challenge, Best Of
Polymath Training Challenge is a non-fiction reading challenge that has been running on a Hungarian book site for the past 11 years. Each year it has 12 categories that participants have to pick their own nonfiction reads for (incl. memoirs and biographies). I have discovered several amazing nonfiction books through this challenge, so I decided to make a list of the best, and most mind-blowing, of them so far.
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Men's Memoirs and (Auto)Biographies
Since I already have a List for women, I wanted to make one for men's memoirs and (auto)biographies - specifically books I think are fascinating, little known, and need more attention. Some of these men might be role models, but that's not really the point: most just had interesting lives, or lived in interesting times. Suggestions welcome.
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