Carlo Goldoni

Italian playwright (1707-1793)

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Lived 1707–1793, aged 86Italy
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    1707–1793
    Aged 86
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Updated 2026-06-10

He gave the Italian stage its most honest mirror: plays that swapped commedia dell'arte masks for real middle-class Venetians speaking their own dialect, arguing over money and marriage with wit sharp enough to last three centuries.

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Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was born in Venice on 25 February 1707, in a republic where theater meant improvised stock characters and broad physical comedy. He spent his career dismantling that tradition, writing plays that dramatized the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes with an ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His works made rich use of Venetian dialect, regional vernacular, and the colloquialisms his contemporaries actually spoke, offering them images of themselves instead of caricatures. He wrote in both French and Italian, and under the pen name Polisseno Fegeio, Past…

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