Count Carlo Gozzi

Count Carlo Gozzi (1713-1786) was an Italian dramatist, born at Venice. He was 39 years old when his first dramatic piece, "Three Oranges," brought him prominently before the public. Followed up this success, a series of his 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 his "Turandot" (1722-1806).

His elder brother, Count Gasparo Gozzi, was an active littérateur. He was the author of various translations, essays on literature, besides editor of a couple of journals. He was press censor in Venice for a time, and was in his later days engaged in school and university work.

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