Autobiography, A Collection Of The Most Instructive And Amusing Lives Ever Published - Softcover

Carlo Goldoni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461836440 ISBN 13: 9780461836448

Publisher: HardPress, 1827

Synopsis

Autobiography, A Collection Of The Most Instructive And Amusing Lives Ever Published by Hunt and Clarke presents Carlo Goldoni's memoirs in an English translation. The excerpt chronicles Goldoni's life from his 1707 Venice birth through his youth in Perugia, Rimini, and Venice, and follows his multifaceted career as a dramatist and reformer of Italian theatre. It details his travels across Italy—Rimini, Perugia, Venice, Milan, Padua, Verona, Brescia, and beyond—amid intimate anecdotes with actors, patrons, and rivals, and his pivotal efforts to modernize Italian comedy. The narrative surveys his major works such as Belisarius, Don Juan, The Cunning Widow, Pamela, and other celebrated pieces, as well as his experiences with patrons like Medebac and his periods as a Genoese consul. It also recounts his personal life, including marriage, financial upheavals, and constant movement between cities. The memoirs offer a vivid, self-reflective chronicle of 18th?century theater life, reform, artistry, and the social webs that sustained or undermined a prolific dramatist.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1827
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461836440
• ISBN 13: 9780461836448
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318