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Portrait of Carlo Gozzi. Carlo, Count Gozzi ( Italian: [ˈkarlo ˈɡɔddzi]; 13 December 1720 – 4 April 1806) [1] was an Italian [a] ( Venetian) playwright and champion of Commedia dell'arte. [3] Early life. Gozzi was born and died in Venice; [4] he came from a family of minor Venetian aristocracy, [5] the Tiepolos. [6] .
Carlo, Conte Gozzi (born Dec. 13, 1720, Venice—died April 4, 1806, Venice) was a poet, prose writer, and dramatist, a fierce and skillful defender of the traditional Italian commedia dell’arte form against the dramatic innovations of Pietro Chiari and Carlo Goldoni.
The Italian poet, prose writer, and dramatist Carlo Gozzi was a fierce and skillful defender of the traditional Italian commedia dell’arte form against the dramatic innovations of Pietro Chiari and Carlo Goldoni. Admired in Italy and elsewhere in Europe, Gozzi’s dramas became the basis of many subsequent theatrical and musical works.
Eighteenth Century Venice witnessed the rise to popularity of Carlo Gozzi, a playwright whose life and works have provoked a spectrum of controversial opinions ranging from the over-enthusiastic evaluation of the German Romantics and the harsh criticisms of more realistic Italia
Jun 5, 2016 · Count Carlo Gozzi (1720–1806), Goldoni's contemporary in Venice and his embittered rival, is little known even to Italians at the present day unless they are serious researchers into theatrical history.
An analysis of Carlo Gozzi's Fiabe, a series of plays based on folk tales, with a focus on Turandot, a tragicomic adaptation of the Chinese legend. The article explores how Gozzi combines the features of tragicomedy and fairy tale in his drama, and how he uses them to criticize his literary rivals.
Carlo Gozzi. The Venetian playwright (1720-1806) was renowned for his vigorous defence of the traditional “Commedia dell’arte”; against the dramatic reforms proposed by such contemporaries, as Carlo Goldoni and Pietro Chiari.
