by Carlo Goldoni · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806340254
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«I Due Gemelli Veneziani» is the theatrical comedy by Carlo Goldoni, published by Einaudi in paperback, in Italian.
The play presents the twin brothers Zanetto and Tonino, identical in appearance but opposite in character and behaviour. That absolute resemblance causes misunderstandings and comic situations, and brings into play the identity of the characters and the weight that the actions of one have on the other's life.
The play was originally published in 1750 and this edition belongs to the collection «Collezione di teatro» (No. 198).
Recommended for readers interested in classic Italian theatre and comedies of intrigue.
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade, which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.
