Question: The New York Society Library has a special collection from the libraries of what author born in 1838?
Context: Library West is the major library of the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries system.  Its collections consist of material on the humanities and social sciences, as well as African studies and Asian studies resources.  The Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica special collection on Jewish studies is also part of the collection. The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.  With nearly 53 million items, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress), and fourth largest in the world.  It is a private, non-governmental, independently managed, nonprofit corporation operating with both private and public financing.  The library has branches in the boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island, and affiliations with academic and professional libraries in the metropolitan area of New York State.  The City of New York's other two boroughs, Brooklyn and Queens, are served by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Library, respectively.  The branch libraries are open to the general public and consist of circulating libraries.  The New York Public Library also has four research libraries which are also open to the general public. William Walton (1706–1768) was the son of Captain William and Mary (Santford) Walton.  He followed his father into the shipping and mercantile business and became a prominent figure in the colony of New York, serving as a member of the New York General Assembly (1751–58) and of the Governor's Council (1758–68).  He was one of the founders and a trustee of the New York Society Library and a member of the Board of Trade from 1758 until his death in 1768. The Wiesbaden State Library (German: "Landesbibliothek Wiesbaden" ), formerly the "Nassau State Library" and "Hessian State Library", is one of the state libraries of Germany.  It is funded by the State of Hesse and located in Wiesbaden.  With collections currently comprising over one million books, it is one of Germany's largest research libraries.  The major special collection is on the historical state of Nassau, in which the library has its roots.  As of 1 January 2011 it became part of the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences.  The library building is situated in the Rheinstraße () in central Wiesbaden. The James Ford Bell Library is a special collection of the University of Minnesota Libraries located on the University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus.  It is named for its donor and patron James Ford Bell, founder of the General Mills Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  The collection consists of some 30,000 rare books, maps, manuscripts, broadsides, pamphlets and other materials documenting the history and impact of international trade in the pre-modern era, before ca. 1800.  Its materials range in date from 400 CE to 1825 CE, with the bulk of the collection concentrated between the years 1450 and 1790, the early modern period.  The library is known for its globe gores copy of the 1507 Waldseemuller world map, and it acquired a copy of the 1602 Impossible Black Tulip Chinese world map in 2009.  The scope of the collection is global and more than 15 languages are represented. The University of South Carolina Libraries are the public academic library system of the University of South Carolina, consisting of Thomas Cooper Library (the largest), Colemon Karesh Law Library, Ernest F. Hollings Special Collection Library, Music Library, School of Medicine Library, South Caroliniana Library, and others.  In total, the library system, the largest in South Carolina, holds more than 5,679,527 book volumes, 619,459 electronic books, and a total of 8,941,910 library materials making it one of the largest libraries in North America. A University at Buffalo Libraries Special Collection, The Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, is devoted to 20th century poetry in English and English translation.  Founded by Charles David Abbott, the University at Buffalo's first Director of Libraries, The Poetry Collection contains over 100,000 volumes by every major and many minor poet writing in English.  Recordings of poets reading from their own works, poets' notebooks, letters and manuscripts, and a wide variety of literary magazines are also included in this collection.  Approximately 5,000 little magazine titles, 1,200 current subscriptions, and a number of portraits, sculptures, and photographs round out the collection.  Also included in the Poetry Collection is the James Joyce Archive, the world's largest collection of James Joyce manuscripts, books and artifacts. The Madras Literary Society is a learned society in Chennai (earlier called Madras), India which was founded in 1817 and in 1830 it became associated with the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.  It was founded by Sir John Henry Newbolt, Chief Justice of Madras with Benjamin Guy Babington as the founder secretary.  The Society produced a journal called the "Transactions of the Literary Society of Madras" and from 1833 under the name of "[Madras] Journal of Literature and Science".  Most of the early members were Europeans and the first Indian to be admitted was Kavali Lakshmayya who worked with Colin Mackenzie.  The journal ceased publication in 1894.  The journal published extensive researches on geology, meteorology, fauna, flora, culture and history.  Some of the major contributors to the journal included Thomas C. Jerdon and Walter Elliot.  The library run by the society in a red sandstone building in the Department of Public Instruction complex in Nungambakkam is the oldest functional public library in the city and one of the oldest in India.  The Government Museum, Chennai started as an extension of the Madras Literary Society library in Nungambakkam before moving to the present premises in Pantheon Road, Egmore.  In 1890, a major part of the library's book collection was moved to a new building in the same premises as the museum to form the Connemara Public Library.  The main library continues to exist in the premises of the DPI albeit in a dilapidated state. Lorenzo Da Ponte (10 March 174917 August 1838) was an Italian, later American opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest.  He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's greatest operas, "Don Giovanni", "The Marriage of Figaro" and "Così fan tutte". The New York Society Library (NYSL) is the oldest cultural institution in New York City.  It was founded in 1754 by the New York Society as a subscription library.  During the time when New York was the capital of the United States, it was the "de facto" Library of Congress.  Until the establishment of the New York Public Library in 1895, it functioned as the city's library as well.  It has been patronized by a wide variety of literary and political figures, from George Washington to Wendy Wasserstein.  Its special collections include books from the libraries of John Winthrop and Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Answer: Lorenzo Da Ponte