Goldoni
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prolific Italian dramatist (1707-1793)
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Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty.
Biography Memoirs There is an abundance of autobiographical information on Goldoni, most of which comes from the introductions to his plays and from his Memoirs.
He was able to do so when Paolo Zancla, the impresario of the Teatro San Luca (an early theatre built in 1629, which later became the Teatro Goldoni) in Venice accepted it.
Goldoni says that he took for his models the plays of Molière and that whenever a piece of his own succeeded he whispered to himself: "Good, but not yet Molière."
Goldoni had a dislike for arrogance, intolerance and the abuse of power.
Goldoni in popular culture *The film Carlo Goldoni – Venice, Grand Theatre of the World, directed by Alessandro Bettero, was released in 2007 and is available in English, Italian, French, and Japanese.