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Gozzi, Count Carlo
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or Italian dramatist, born at Venice; was 39 when his first dramatic piece, "Three Oranges," brought him prominently before the public; he followed up this success with a series of dramas designed to uphold the old methods of Italian dramatic art, and to resist the efforts of Goldoni and Chiari to introduce French models; these plays dealing with wonderful adventures and enchantments in the manner of Eastern tales ("dramatic fairy tales," he called them), enjoyed a wide popularity, and spread to Germany and France. Schiller translated "Turandot" (1722-1806).—His elder brother,
as an active littérateur; the author of various translations, essays on literature, besides editor of a couple of journals; was press censor in Venice for a time, and was in his later days engaged in school and university work (1713-1786).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Gozzi, Count Carlo'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/gozzi-count-carlo.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
