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And
here the scandal. Goldoni writes a satire whose original text was lost,
but that the news by the time state as highly licentious.
With
the “Il colosso” title, Goldoni images he has to rise a colossal statue
to beauty, and to build it, he uses the anatomic parts, any excluded,
of some young ladies of the polite society of Pavia.
As the name of the satire author is known, the expulsion from school
is immediate. Later, Goldoni follows his father at Udine, Modena, Feltre,
and finally he graduates in law at Padua in 1731 and starts to practice
as a lawyer.
But the disease for theatre is incurable. He meets the head of a theatre
company Giuseppe Imer, he makes him read a line tragicomedy, “Belisario”,
and receives a positive opinion and he follows him: Imer manages at
Venice the San Samuele theatre. “Belisario” will be his first success.
But how was Carlo Goldoni's live? He liked girls, especially if of easy
virtue. Than, in 1736, he knows in Genoa Nicoletta Connio, daughter
of a notary and Nicoletta was the sole, real, great love.
He
was spendthrift, he liked gambling and he did not how to resist the
sins of gluttony. Obviously, Goldoni wasn't only a spendthrift, a player,
a glutton, otherwise he wouldn't have the place he steadily keeps in
the history of theatre of all times and countries. He was against the
literary mannerisms of the line theatre; he was against the vulgarity
where the art comedy fell.
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