Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoniwas 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 Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, 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...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth25 February 1707
CountryItaly
The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
He who talks much cannot always talk well.
He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]
He who talks much cannot talk well.
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Each day a day goes by.
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
A wise traveller never despises his own country.