Carlo Goldoni’s ’most beautiful comedy’ stars Miriam Mesturino, an accredited Goldonian interpreter, flanked by Luciano Caratto with Alessandro Marrapodi. This brilliant masterpiece, staged at the Teatro Sant’Angelo in Venice on 26 December 1752, narrates the adventure of Mirandolina, at once servant and mistress of a Florentine inn. Mirandolina is an excellent innkeeper, today we would call her a capable woman-manager. Around her are hilarious characters: the parvenu and spendthrift Count, the snooty Marquis, a visionary of ancient wealth and present, useless nobility, the misogynistic Cavaliere; but most of all the naive Fabrizio, sincerely in love.

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