To understand who Goldoni was, let's start by saying that he began as a child to play with puppets, that he greatly admired Molière and that at some point he left his Commedia dell'Arte to write dangerously realistic pièces, continuing to reform Italian comedy . With his three-act comedy "I rusteghi " , for example, the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni wrote a cruel social satire of his contemporaries by attacking a Venetian bourgeoisie in full decline, whose male pillars we

It is evident that, first of all for us, Giangiorgio Trissino is Andrea Palladio's mentor , in a certain sense his creator. In a broader sense, he was certainly the one who dedicated his life to the realization of the vision of his Olympic Vicenza . But Trissino dal Vello d'Oro was also, or rather before, a literary theorist, a philologist, a playwright, a poet and an important innovator of Italian theater . He was born in Vicenza in 1478, a decade before the publication of

…and the subtle thread that binds him to the Serenissima There are figures who do not simply pass through history: they leave a fragrance as they go. Vincenzo Corrado  — cook, philosopher, and man of letters — lived between the 18th and 19th centuries as “Head of the Services of the Mouth”  to Prince Michele IV Imperiali.In the aristocratic halls of Naples, among the trembling candlelight and the silver reflecting quiet movements, Corrado did not merely cook: he directed.His

Antonio Fogazzaro studied in Turin . In his youth he lived first in Turin, where he graduated in law, then in Milan, where he came into contact with the exponents of the scapigliatura, but already in 1869 he returned to Vicenza , where, abandoned the profession of lawyer, he devoted himself exclusively to literature until his death in 1911. Fogazzaro was a restless soul, eager to free himself from the fetters of an oppressive bourgeois conformism, but also unable to formula

Giacomo Casanova is often portrayed as a Don Juan obsessed with sexual performance, a cynical and immoral dissimulator: this probably confuses the character with his caricature. The journey of the Venetian traveler has certainly blurred the tracks: adventurer, lover of more than a hundred women, exiled to a thousand trades, the man made his life a job. He says that Turin can offer everything you could want in terms of sex and love, but that being a very small city you are

Catherine Cornaro's story is closely linked to the wishes of her father: the ambitious Venetian patrician Marco Cornaro, who gave the benefit of his fortune to King John II of Cyprus , and later to his son James II. Of course, these loans were not made without ulterior motives. King James II of Cyprus soon understood that it was becoming complicated to pay him back. It was then that Marco Cornaro offered him his fourteen year old daughter, Caterina. Being still a minor, f

At least once in your life you can hear them say to you: << Don't be a godwit! >>. The origin of the term is linked to a typical figure of the social landscape in the last centuries of the Serenissima . The same figure, then, was also present in the Maritime Republic of Genoa. It was a person paid to follow those who had a defaulting debt. The constant stalking was accompanied by moans, screams and moans. The godwit , in fact, was solitary complaining and screaming relentle

When the event known as "Vespro" or "Vespers" is mentioned in the pages of history, one immediately thinks of the paintings of the Venetian Francesco Hayez . But how well do we know this event? On Easter Monday of 1282, the people of Palermo , gathered according to custom in front of the church of Santo Spirito to attend Vespers , rose up against the French domination of Charles of Anjou by massacring all the French in the city and proclaiming their independence. The term Si

"Once upon a time, there was a young Tuscan shepherd who, to escape boredom, drew sheep on rocks . One day, he was admired by Cimabue , the most famous painter of the time, who asked him to become his pupil ." Whether you believe this legend or not, one thing is certain: Giotto learned so much from his master that he surpassed him. If we had to name just one of Giotto's works, for us it would certainly be the fresco decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua , named after th