Venice, beautiful in 1707, when Carlo Goldoni was born, as in 2008, pretty strong in his grace and yearning, Venice, where the air is soft and fluffy, water and sky are all colors, all tones the most grueling and most persuasive, and churches and palaces and towers are part of the picture and frame and set design, the oriental dream ... So
writes Giancarlo Galan - President of Veneto Region - in his introduction to the book Freemasonry and the Enlightenment in Venice - Carlo Goldoni and Women Curious , also dedicating this book to the Venetian of which is in charge Danesin Louis - already Sovereign Grand Commander of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Italy of A:. L:. A:. M:. Palazzo Vitelleschi - transported on land and working to combine it with the principles of a Italianità that was compatible with the Laws of the State and Honor, as well as outside the national borders in Europe.
This is why the Serenissima Society of London Welcomes in particular esteem, affection and gratitude the honor of the great Venetian - focusing, in particular its commitment to spread the traditional values \u200b\u200bof the Venetian in the World and being carriers of solidarity in the world, according to Culture and Tradition trio of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity .
This may help us to assess the appropriateness of Carlo Goldoni's cultural presence in the Age of Enlightenment: If his work as a playwright was not exactly a collection of philosophical doctrines, it is certain that it represented a movement of ideas which reflected itself in the great need for renewal of the eighteenth-century bourgeoisie and therefore as such, deserves to be evaluated, whereas the light of reason they are talking about the Enlightenment is not something very specific, are not tied to a specific form of rationality, but indicate a habit of mind characterized primarily by duty , each illumination that feels very much alive, to spread the culture of reason and to make a tool for raising humanity.
Voltaire, almost the same age as Carlo Goldoni, shared with him in the Land of the intense emotions of the French Enlightenment, captured by the great debate on Ethics, Freedom, Reason : nothing transcendental nor immanent, because it is time that, from the pages of Candide, in the face of innumerable evils concrete humanity, the mark of the ridiculous bubble with metaphysical optimism of the previous century, devoid of meaning: "If this is the best of all possible worlds, what will never be the others? " .
not be overlooked, finally, the contextual analysis of diachronic historical and political movements that accompanied the life of Carlo Goldoni: l 'Esprit des Lois published in Geneva in 1748 by Charles-Louis de Montesquieu, one of the most representative authors of 'Enlightenment, the Declaration of the Rights voted in Philadelphia in 1774, the American Revolution ended with the Treaty of Versailles in 1783; the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen in 1789, which formed the basis of modern bourgeois democracy.
Freemasonry and the Enlightenment in Venice
Carlo Goldoni and women curious
by Luigi Danesin
Atanor Publishing, 2008
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