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Carlo Goldoni

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thumb|right|Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.[The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.] Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (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. Quotes thumb|Monument to Goldoni in Florence (sculpted by Ulisse Cambi) Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole. Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. La Villeggiatura (1761), I, 12 (tr. Ramage, 1866) Chi ben commincia è alia meta dell' opra. Who well begins, is half way through his task. Il filosofo di campagna (1752), Lesbina, pt. II, sc. i (tr. Harbottle and Dalbiac, 1904) Pamela (c. 1750) Bello è il rossore, ma è incommodo qualche volta. The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes inconvenient. I. 3 (tr. Ramage, 1866) Il sangue nobile è un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande. Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterise the great. I. 6 (tr. Ramage, 1866) Ditemi in che consiste la prudenza dell' uomo.Art. Nel vivere onestamente; nell' osservare le leggi; nel mantenere il proprio decoro. Tell me in what prudence consists.Art. In living honestly; in keeping the laws, and in maintaining a proper decorum. I. 13 (tr. Ramage, 1866) Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi. He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. I, 14 (tr. Ramage, 1866) Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere. The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. I. 14 (tr. Ramage, 1866) Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese. A wise traveler never despises his own country. I. 16 (tr. Ramage, 1866) Chi parla troppo non può parlar sempre bene. He who talks much cannot always talk well. I. 16 (tr. Ramage, 1866) Il riso è proprio dell' uomo; ma tutti gli uomini non ridono per la stessa cagione. V'è il ridicolo nobile, che ha origine dal vezzo delle parole, dai sali arguti, dalle facezie spiritosi e brillanti. V'è il riso vile, che nasce dalla scurrilità, dalla scioccheria. Laughing is peculiar to man ; but all men do not laugh for the same reason. There is the attic salt, which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally. There is the low joke, which arises from scurrility and idle conceit. I. 16 (tr. Ramage, 1866) Muore per metà chi lascia un' immagine di se stesso nei figli. He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. II. 2 (tr. Ramage, 1866) So Lloyd, song in The Capricious Lovers, air 2:—    When I look on my boys,   They renew all my joys,Myself in my children I see;   While the comforts I find   In the kingdom my mind,Pronounce that my kingdom is free. Bibliography Craufurd Tait Ramage, Beautiful Thoughts from French and Italian Authors (Liverpool: E. Howell, 1866), pp. 456-458 Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian, 2nd ed. (1904), Arcifanfano, 249, 267, 315, 334; Aristide, 271; Artemisia, 286, 311, 376; Belisario, 272, 283, 315, 343, 387, 420; Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno, 261, 263, 346; De Gustibus non est Disputandum, 285; Don Giovanni Tenorio, 290, 300, 434; Enea in Lazio, 247, 402; Enrico, 295 External links Category:Playwrights from Italy Category:Singers from Italy Category:People from Venice Category:1707 births Category:1793 deaths