Carlo Goldoni
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Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Gold
Portrait of Carlo Goldoni by Alessandro Longhi, c. 1757, Venice, Ca' Goldoni
Palazzo Centani birthplace of Goldoni in Venice
Monument to Goldoni in Venice (sculpted by Antonio Dal Zotto)
Monument to Goldoni in Florence (sculpted by Ulisse Cambi)
Venetian language
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Venetian, also known as wider Venetian or Venetan or vèneto, is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understan
Carlo Goldoni
…often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade, which he claimed in his…
A sign in Venetian reading "Here Venetian is also spoken"
A street sign (nizioléto) in Venice using Venetian calle, as opposed to the Italian via
Lasa pur dir (Let them speak), an inscription on the Venetian House in Piran, southwestern Slovenia
Venetian language proverb board outside of a bar in Mestre, Veneto