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According to the ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani''[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antonio-mattiuzzi_(Dizionario_Biografico)/], this was in its turn an adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s 1747 play ''[[I Due Gemelli Veneziani]]'' ("The two Venetian twins", also formally translated and published as ''[[The Venetian Twins]]'' in English) ; which in '''its''' turn had been based on ''[[Menaechmi]]'', a Latin comedy by Plautus (which had also been the major source for William Shakespeare's ''[[The Comedy of Errors]]'', and to a lesser extent perhaps of ''[[Twelfth Night]]''. | According to the ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani''[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antonio-mattiuzzi_(Dizionario_Biografico)/], this was in its turn an adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s 1747 play ''[[I Due Gemelli Veneziani]]'' ("The two Venetian twins", also formally translated and published as ''[[The Venetian Twins]]'' in English) ; which in '''its''' turn had been based on ''[[Menaechmi]]'', a Latin comedy by Plautus (which had also been the major source for William Shakespeare's ''[[The Comedy of Errors]]'', and to a lesser extent perhaps of ''[[Twelfth Night]]''. | ||
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Revision as of 06:52, 29 June 2017
I Tre Gemelli Veneziani ("The three Venetian twins") is a comic drama in three acts by Antonio Collalto Mattiuzzi.
Originally written in Italian when Mattiuzzi was at the Theatre Italien in Paris (1759-1778).
According to the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani[1], this was in its turn an adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s 1747 play I Due Gemelli Veneziani ("The two Venetian twins", also formally translated and published as The Venetian Twins in English) ; which in its turn had been based on Menaechmi, a Latin comedy by Plautus (which had also been the major source for William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, and to a lesser extent perhaps of Twelfth Night.
See also Menaechmi
