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Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni ( 25 February 1707  6 February 1793 ) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the ___MASK69___ . His works include some of ___MASK54___ ' s most famous and best - loved plays . Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty . His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves , often dramatizing the lives , values , and conflicts of the emerging middle classes . Though he wrote in French and Italian , his plays make rich use of the Venetian language , regional vernacular , and colloquialisms . Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title " Polisseno Fegeio , Pastor Arcade ," which he claimed in his memoirs the " Arcadians of Rome " bestowed on him . Venetian or Venetan ( Venetian : ', ' or ") is a Romance language spoken as a native language by almost four million people in the northeast of ___MASK54___ , mostly in the Veneto region of ___MASK54___ , where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it . It is sometimes spoken and often well understood outside Veneto , in Trentino , Friuli , Venezia Giulia , Istria , and some towns of Dalmatia , Croatia , Slovenia , Montenegro , Brazil , Mexico , and Romania . Arcadia (" Arkadía ") is one of the regional units of ___MASK49___ . It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese . It is situated in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula . It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas . In Greek mythology , it was the home of the god Pan . In European Renaissance arts , Arcadia was celebrated as an unspoiled , harmonious wilderness . The ___MASK69___ , or traditionally known as the Most Serene ___MASK69___ , was a state originating from the lagoon communities in the area of Venice , now northeastern ___MASK54___ . It existed from the late seventh century AD until 1797 . Although it had a long history of war and conquest , the republic ' s modern reputation is chiefly based on its status as an economic and trading power . I quatro rusteghi ( The Four Curmudgeons , sometimes given as School for Fathers ) is a comic opera in three acts , music by Ermanno Wolf - Ferrari to a text by Luigi Sugana and Giuseppe Pizzolato based on Carlo Goldoni ' s 18th - century play I rusteghi . The opera is in Venetian dialect ( hence `` quatro '' in place of `` quattro '' ) . Venice (; ) is a city in northeastern ___MASK54___ and the capital of the Veneto region . It is situated across a group of 117 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by bridges . These are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon , an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers . Parts of Venice are renowned for the beauty of their settings , their architecture , and artwork . The lagoon and a part of the city are listed as a World Heritage Site . Ermanno Wolf - Ferrari ( born Ermanno Wolf ) ( January 12 , 1876  January 21 , 1948 ) was an Italian composer and teacher . He is best known for his comic operas such as " Il segreto di Susanna " ( 1909 ). A number of his works were based on plays by Carlo Goldoni , including " Le donne curiose " ( 1903 ), " I quatro rusteghi " ( 1906 ) and " Il campiello " ( 1936 ).