Volume III Part 79 (1/2)
”Would youme why?”
”He knohat he would lose; for he enjoys the idea you seeness, and good-bye to the illusion He is a worthy man with six thousand sequins a year, and a craze for the theatre He is a good actor enough, and has written several comedies in prose, but they are fit neither for the study nor the stage”
”You certainly give hier”
”I assure you it is not quite s to the Forty and the Fifty?”
”Just as at Bale noon is at eleven”
”I understand; just as your Council of Ten is composed of seventeen na are men of another kind”
”Why cursed?”
”Because they are not subject to the fisc, and are thus enabled to commit whatever criot to do is to live outside the state borders on their revenues”
”That is a blessing, and not a curse; but let ati is a h, but he is fond of the sound of his own voice, his style is prolix, and I don't think he has much brains”
”He is an actor, I think you said?”
”Yes, and a very good one, above all, when he plays the lover's part in one of his own plays”
”Is he a handsoe, but not elsewhere; his face lacks expression”
”But his plays give satisfaction?”
”Not to persons who understand play writing; they would be hissed if they were intelligible”
”And what do you think of Goldoni?”
”I have the highest opinion of him Goldoni is the Italian Moliere”
”Why does he call himself poet to the Duke of Parma?”
”No doubt to prove that a wit as well as a fool has his weak points; in all probability the duke knows nothing about it He also calls hiination Goldoni is a good play writer, and nothing more Everybody in Venice knows me for his friend, and I can therefore speak of him with authority He does not shi+ne in society, and in spite of the fine satire of his works he is a entle disposition”