Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (1707 - 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice, whom critics today rank among the European theatre's greatest authors. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title "Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade," which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.…more
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Books with Carlo Goldoni
La vita e il teatro di Carlo Goldoni by
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A Servant of Many Masters: The Life and Times of Carlo Goldoni by
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Serving Twa Maisters: Five Classic Plays in Scots Translation by
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