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Profession: academic

Clement Clarke Moore

theologian, academic

1779 (New York) – 1863 (New York)

Moore met da Ponte in New York, where his father arranged for da Ponte to take up the position of first professor of Italian at Columbia College. By the way, there is significant dispute about whether or not it was Moore who authored ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas.’

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