Carlo goldoni la locandiera florence
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Mirandolina, or the Mistress of the Inn
by Carlo Goldoni
THE LITERARY WORK
A play in three acts set in Florence in the middle of the eighteenth century; first staged in Venice in 1753; published in Italian (as La locandiera) in 1753, in English in 1912.
SYNOPSIS
Admired and courted by the guests of her inn, the innkeeper Mirandolina charms a misogynist aristocrat, the Cavaliere of Ripafratta, who ends up falling in love with her but loses out to an unexpected rival.
Events in History at the Time of the Play
The Play in Focus
For More Information
An extraordinarily prolific playwright, Carlo Goldoni is considered the most significant Italian dramatist of the eighteenth century. The father of reform in Italy’s comic theater, he was born in Venice on February 25, 1707, in his grandfather’s mansion. Goldoni spent his childhood in a happy family’s circle governed by his mother while his father studied and practiced medicine in Rome. The boy later joined his father in Perugia, attending a Jesuit school before being sent to the School of the Dominican Father in Rimini to study philosophy and logic. Goldoni spent much of his time there reading Latin, Italian, and French plays. He went on to study law in Pavia, getting expelled but then finally earning his law degree at
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La Locandiera
La Locandiera (The Mistress of the Inn) is a 1753 three-act comedy by Carlo Goldoni [1] (1707-1793).
The original text
Written in 1753, this three-act comedy about a coquettish inn-owner was first staged during the Carnival of Venice in January 1753, and published in Florence that same year. However the play was no great success apparently and failed completely at the Italian Theater in Paris in 1764 (as a two act piece under the title Camille, Aubergiste). However, rediscovered, it was taken on a tour of Europe by a company of Venetian actors and triumphantly revived with a Parisian production of 1830. It has since been regarded as Goldoni's masterpiece.
Translations and adaptations
Best known in South Africa as Mirandolina (after the play's main character), an English translation and adaptation by Clifford Bax [2] (1886-1962), but there are several other translations into English with different titles:
E.g. The Mistress of the Inn, The Innkeeper Woman, Miranda, etc.[3],
Another translation, also by Clifford Bax, is entitled Mine Hostess and is included in Three comedies by Carlo Goldoni, edited by Gabriele Baldini, published by Oxford University Press, 1961.
Bax's version, Mirandolina, was translated into Afrikaans as Moeite me
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Book Description:
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