Author: Carlo Goldoni

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781230205199

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAP. XIV. My Don Juan, or the Libertine--Complete Vengeance against La Passalacqua--My Journey to Genoa--View of that Town--Origin of the Royal Lottery--My Marriage--My Return to Venice with my Wife--Riualdo di Montalbano, a Tragi-Comedy--Henry King of Sicily, a Tragedy--Arrival at Venice of the famous Harlequin Sacchi a7idhis Family--Tlieir Entrance into the Company of St. Samuel--Acquisition of other good Actors--The Accomplished Man, a Comedy of' Character, in three Actsr partly rcritten and partly skdched--Gustavus Vusa, an Opera--Short D/gression respecting Metustasio and Apostolo Zeno--Conversation with the latter about my Opera--The Prodigal, a Comedy in three Acts, partly written and partly sketched--Complaints of the Actors with Masks--The Thirty-two Misfortunes of Harlequin, a sketched Comedy--A few Words respecting Sacchi the Harlequin--The Critical Night, a sketched Comedy. The infidelities of an actress by whom I had been deceived, were detailed by me in the preceding chapter, neither by way of ornamenting my memoirs, nor drawing forth compliments on my simplicity; but as the anecdote was inserted in a work, which served to revenge me, I thought I could not avoid giving a historical account of the episode before speaking of the principal subject. Every body knows the wretched Spanish play which the Italians call II Convitato di Pietra, the French he Festin de Pierre, and the English Don Juan. In Italy I always considered it with horror, and I conld not conceive how such a farce conld for so long a time draw crowds together, and prove the delight of a polished people. The Italian comedians were themselves astonished; and, either by way of joke or from ignorance, some of them used to say that the author of Don Juan had...