by Carlo Goldoni · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817151375
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«La Locandiera» is the stage comedy by Carlo Goldoni, published by Rizzoli in paperback (220 pages, in Italian).
Mirandolina, the shrewd mistress of an Italian inn, runs her business with charm and intelligence while fending off three aristocrats vying for her affection. Even the misogynistic Knight of Ripafratta ends up succumbing to her charms. A comedy that satirizes the nobility and celebrates female independence.
Premiered at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice in 1753. Part of the Superclassici collection of the Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli (no. 37).
Recommended for students of Italian and lovers of classical theatre and eighteenth-century Italian literature.
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.
