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Carlo, Count Gozzi (13 December 1720 – April 4, 1806), was an Italian dramatist.
Innate around Venice, he was descended from an old Venetian personal. His father's debts forced him to search a means of supporting himself, & at a age of 16, he joined the army around Dalmatia; three years late he returned to Venice, in which he before long manufactured a reputation for himself when a wittiest member of the Granelleschi society, to which the publication of many satiric pieces experienced gained him admission. This society, nominally devoted to conviviality & wit, experienced good literary aims, & was especially eager to preserve Tuscan literature from foreign influence.
A displacement of the old Italian comedy per dramas of Pietro Chiari and Carlo Goldoni's works, modelled on French examples, threatened to kill a society's efforts; inside 1757 Gozzi come to the delivery by publishing the satiric verse form, ''La tartana degli influssi by the fifty'anno 1756, & around 1761 by his comedy, The Love for Three Oranges or Analisi riflessiva della fiaba L'amore delle tre melarance, a parody of the manner of the other 2 poets, founded in the fairy tale. To perform it, he found a services of the Sacchi company of players, world health organization, thanks to the popularity of the comedies of Chiari & Goldoni--which offered there are no scope for the display of their peculiar talents--got been left forswearing employment. Their satiric powers so sharpened by personalized enmity, a play was an extraordinary profits.
Stricken per outcome produced on the audience per introduction of the occult or even mythic element, which he got simply utilized as the ready to hand medium for his satiric purposes, Gozzi produced a series of spectacular pieces according to fairy tales, which were briefly popular, but fallowing a breakage higher of the Sacchi company were all disregarded. It were great deal praised by Goethe, Schlegel, Madame de Staël and Sismondi; and one of the babies, Turandot or Re Turandote'', was translated by Friedrich Schiller.
Within his late years Gozzi began to develop tragedies where a risible element wwhen largely introduced; as this innovation proved unacceptable to the critics he turned to the Spanish drama, from either which he found system for various pieces; these got minor profits.
His brother, Gasparo Gozzi, was also the easily-known writer of the period.
His gathered works were published under his have supervision, at Venice, around 1792, around X volumes; & his dramatic works, translated into German by Werthes, were published at Bern in 1795. Watch Gozzi's operate, Memorie inutili delta vita di Carlo Gozzi (Tercet vols., Venice, 1797), translated into French by Paul de Musset (1848), and into English by JA Symonds (1889); F Horn, Über Gozzis dramatische Poesie (Venice, 1803); Gherardini, Vita di Gasp. Gozzi (1821); "Charles Gozzi," by Paul de Musset, in the Revue des deux mondes for November 15, 1844; Magrini, Carlo Gozzi e la fiaba: saggi storici, biografici, e critici (Cremona, 1876), and a equivalent creator's book in Gozzi's life & days (Benevento, 1883).
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This entry incorporates public domain text originally from either a 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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