biography
pronunciation:
[keeahree]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1711–85)
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| biography:
| Writer and playwright, born in Brescia, Lombardy, N Italy. His extremely successful novels were derived from examples in French and English, to which he added a social and philosophical dimension to the adventurous plot of the original. Similarly, his plays imitated the work of Goldoni and Gozzi, and competed with them in popularity. |
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