Carlo Goldoni

"Painter and son of nature," wrote Voltaire, at that time the arbitrator and the dispenser of fame in cultured Europe, to Carlo Goldoni, then a rising dramatist, "I would entitle your comedies, 'Italy liberated from the Goths.'" The sage of Ferney's quick critical faculty had once again hit its sure mark, for it is Goldoni's supreme merit, and one of his chief titles to fame and glory, that he released the Italian theatre from the bondage of the artificial and pantomime performances that until then had passed for plays, and that, together with Moli re, he laid the foundations of the drama as it is understood in our days.

Excerpt from Pamela Nubile: 25 Febbraio 1907 Pam. Povera padrona Con che amore mi ha ella raccomandato Milord suo figlio Pareva che negli ultimi respiri d1 vita non sapesse parlar che di me. Quando me ne rammento. Non posso trattenere le lagrime. Jev. Il nostro buon padrone vi ama, non meno della defunta sua genitrice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.