The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the Second (Gozzi Carlo).

"The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the Second" - это второй том мемуаров итальянского графа Карло Гоцци. В книге он рассказывает о своей жизни и карьере в театре XVIII века, а также об интересных людях, которых он встретил на своем пути. Гоцци был известен как драматург и театральный режиссер, и его мемуары детально описывают его творческий процесс и отношения с другими творческими личностями того времени. Книга представляет собой ценный исторический и культурный источник для изучения театрального искусства и истории Италии в XVIII веке.

The Italian, Count Carlo Gozzi, will forever live as a more-than-a-witness who colonized the world with palm branches and mirth-provoking fables. Amongst his exotic, magical tales are: from the seven-headed though-go-on fighting dragon Polyphemus, to the duck-mansman Sganarelle and Christmas Lily, to the self-deluded Don John's, and most famous, the demiurgic Rossinante in Romeo's new story. In Gozzi's last will he outlines his wish to be left alone, to die peacefully. Although this desire was not fulfilled it is indeed as if Italy's master dreamer lived a self same solitude, away from French revolutionaries and Fédérés of Verona and Bosco Fontana's Italy, yet never failing in his works, printed twice by mythic Italian lay pupil, Rachele Levi. Gozzi the second volume of his memoirs share all this with the reader, so that they can both have found themselves immersed in this manna from Lombardy's imagination, made flesh of some splendid musicians and poets like Alessandro Trovato and Felice Romani, towards a new revivalism as yet to come.