Carlo Gozzi

Viola Ardeni (California State University, Sacramento)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 13 Dec 1720
Died 4 Apr 1806
Activity 1736-1805

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

Primary

Playwright / Dramatist
Poet

Other

Autobiographer
Essayist
Translator

Resources

Gozzi's Works

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Carlo Gozzi was an eighteenth-century Venetian playwright, poet, and essayist. He is primarily remembered for reviving the improvisational theater tradition of

commedia dell’arte

with fairy tales. His diverse works (plays, poems, novellas, essays, translations, and an autobiography) captured the Republic of Venice’s last decades, thus becoming a cultural magnifying glass and the ground for transmedia adaptations and postmodern reconsiderations.

Carlo Gozzi was born on December 13, 1720, into an indigent aristocratic family in the Republic of Venice, in present-day Italy. The sixth of eleven children, his parents were Angiola Tiepolo and the Count Jacopo Antonio Gozzi. Because of the family’s lack of resources, Gozzi received a poor private education for a few years and soon decided

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Citation: Ardeni, Viola. "Carlo Gozzi". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 December 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14152, accessed 03 December 2024.]