GOZZI, Carlo, Italian dramatist, younger brother of the brilliant essayist Gaspare Gozzi: b. Venice, 13 Dec. 1720; d. 4 Apr. 1806. On account of his fatl.er's financial embarrassments Gozzi spent three years in Dalmatia, seeking a career as a soldier of fortune (1741-1744). On his return to Venice he tried unsuccessfully to bring order into the chaotic family affairs. His natural bent for literature led him to join the Academy of the Granelleschi and to take part in the quarrels that divided the Venetians into the rival literary camps of the partisans of the dramatists Goldoni and Chiari. He attacked both these writers with equal vigor, the former for his fondness for the newer phil osophy and for his leaning toward foreign influences in the theatre, the latter for his bom bast and ignorance, in
Tartana degli In flussi per l'anno bisestile 1756', a sort of comic almanack, and in a satirical poem,
Marfisa bizzarra'. In order to prove to Goldoni that any novelty, even the most silly, could attract people to the theatre, and that he could succeed with any fairy tale whatever, he wrote the
delle tre melarancie' (The Three Oranges), drawn from Basile's
sion of fiabe dramatized from Neapolitan and Oriental fairy tales appeared on the stage,-(II Corvo' (The Raven),
Re Cervo) (King Stag),
Turandot,'