He, who hungered and thirsted for glory, what glory could he hope for among all these monkeys of Frenchmen, jabbering and gesticulating about their States-General, their Montgolfier, their St. Pierre, their Condorcet, their Parny, their Necker, who had not even the decent feeling to know Italian, and who bowed and smiled and doubtless mixed him up with Metastasio and goldoni when introduced by the Countess to so odd a piece of provincialism as an Italian poet.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
69 387 goldoni, Sonnet on 1883 367 Gondola, In a 1842 iv.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
There are several theatres, and among them a goldoni theatre, as there should be in a city where the sweet old playwright sojourned for a time and has placed the action of his famous comedy, "La Locandiera."
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells