Carlo Gozzi
Playwright, Author
1720 – 1806
Who was Carlo Gozzi?
Carlo, Count Gozzi was an Italian playwright.
Gozzi was born and died in Venice; he came from an old Venetian family from the Republic of Ragusa. His father's debts forced him to look for a means of supporting himself, and at the age of sixteen, he joined the army in Dalmatia; three years later he returned to Venice, where he soon made a reputation for himself as the wittiest member of the Granelleschi Society, to which the publication of several satirical pieces had gained him admission. This society, nominally devoted to conviviality and wit, had serious literary aims and was especially zealous to preserve Tuscan literature from foreign influence.
The displacement of the old Italian comedy by the dramas of Pietro Chiari and Carlo Goldoni, modelled on French examples, threatened to defeat the society's efforts; in 1757 Gozzi came to the rescue by publishing a satirical poem, La tartana degli influssi per l'anno 1756, and in 1761 his comedy based on a fairy tale, The Love for Three Oranges or Analisi riflessiva della fiaba L'amore delle tre melarance, a parody of the style of the other two poets.
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- Born
- Dec 13, 1720
Venice - Also known as
- Гоцци, Карло
- 卡洛·戈齊
- Siblings
- Nationality
- Italy
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 4, 1806
Venice
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on July 23, 2013
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