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numerous essays, the chief of which are collected in La letteratura teatrale
del Settecento in Italia: studi e letture su Carlo Goldoni (Vicenza, 1985). Franca
angelini, Vita di Goldoni (rome, 1993) provides a lively account of his life.
the major current interpreter of goldoni is Franco Fido. among his most
important studies are Guida a Goldoni: teatro e società nel Settecento (turin,
1977); Da Venezia all’Europa: prospettive sull’ultimo Goldoni (rome, 1984);
and Nuova guida a Goldoni: teatro e società nel Settecento (turin, 2001).
an excellent start on the intriguing topic of the reciprocal influence of
goldoni and england is Jackson i. Cope, “goldoni’s england and england’s
goldoni,” MLN, 110.1 (1995), 101–31. Carlo gozzi’s most popular tales are
translated as Five Tales for the Theatre, ed. and trans. albert bermel and
ted emery (Chicago, 1989). Venice’s women intellectuals of the 18th
century have received attention of late. see, for example, adrienne Ward,
“the Price of sonnets and bonnets: how gender Works in Luisa bergalli’s
Le avventure del poeta,” Italica 79 (2002), 168–88; Catherine M. sama,
“Liberty, equality, Frivolity: an italian Critique of Fashion Periodicals,”
Eighteenth Century Studies 37 (2004), 389–414. Catherine M. sama has
edited and translated elisabetta Caminer turra, Selected writings of an
18th-century Venetian Woman of Letters (Chicago, 2003).
giacomo Casanova’s autobiography has recently been translated in its
entirety into english as The History of My Life, trans. William trask, 12 vols
(baltimore, 1997).