Excerpt from IL Burbero Benefico: Commedia Carlo Goldoni, born at Venice in 1707, died at Paris in 1793. He was the reformer of the Italian comedy, which before him was little better than extempore acting. Be sides a few tragedies and smaller plays, he has written about 150 comedies. Goldoni was for the Italian stage what Molière was for the French. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
