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Carlo Goldoni

1707 - 1793

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Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (, also US: , Italian: [ˈkarlo oˈzvaldo ɡolˈdoːni]; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carlo Goldoni is the 213th most popular writer (up from 214th in 2019), the 296th most popular biography from Italy (up from 300th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Italian Writer.

Carlo Goldoni is most famous for his comedies that were written in the 18th century.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carlo Goldoni ranks 213 out of 7,302. Before him are Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Svetlana Alexievich, Terry Pratchett, Terence, Frédéric Mistral, and Karel Čapek. After him are Pearl S. Buck, George Sand, Roger Martin du Gard, Janusz Korczak, Constantine VII, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1707, Carlo Goldoni ranks 3. Before him are Carl Linnaeus, and Leonhard Euler. After him are Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Henry Fielding, Louis I of Spain, Frederick, Prince of Wales, Louis-Michel van Loo, Louis, Duke of Brittany, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. Among people deceased in 1793, Carlo Goldoni ranks 5. Before him are Louis XVI of France, Marie Antoinette, Madame du Barry, and Jean-Paul Marat. After him are Charlotte Corday, Olympe de Gouges, John Michell, Yolande de Polastron, Francesco Guardi, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, and Madame Roland.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Goldoni ranks 296 out of 5,161. Before him are Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519), Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916), Pope Sergius IV (970), Pope Honorius I (585), Pope Sixtus III (390), and Pope Adeodatus I (570). After him are Pope Sergius III (860), Pope Lucius I (200), Suetonius (70), Pope Pontian (200), Canaletto (1697), and Germanicus (-15).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Carlo Goldoni ranks 15. Before him are Giorgio Vasari (1511), Cato the Elder (-243), Carlo Collodi (1826), Plautus (-254), Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), and Catullus (-84). After him are Torquato Tasso (1544), Pliny the Younger (61), Juvenal (50), Grazia Deledda (1871), Dario Fo (1926), and Primo Levi (1919).

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