Goldoni

Yet he deserved the stinging epigram which Goldoni uttered on his character: "A smile upon his lips and venom in his heart."

But when Goldoni attacked it, and Gozzi rose in its defence, the type was already on the wane.

Goldoni had already produced a comedy, called Il Teatro Comico, setting forth his views regarding the reform of the drama.

Goldoni, in the comedy The Persian Wife, gives us a glimpse of coffee making in the middle of the eighteenth century.

Longhi surveyed human life with the same kindly glance and the same absence of gravity or depth of intuition as Goldoni.