Description
The Casa di Carlo Goldoni is the palace in the San Polo sestiere where the great comic playwright was born, now a small museum devoted to him and to 18th-century Venetian theater.
The courtyard alone is worth the ticket, with its wellhead decorated with lion heads and its open 15th-century staircase.
On the second floor, three rooms tell the story of Goldoni and his Venice through paintings, furniture and the illustrations from the first editions of his comedies. The finest room is the one with the marionette theater from Palazzo Grimani ai Servi, with some thirty original 18th-century marionettes.
On the third floor is the library of the institute for theater studies, with texts and manuscripts. The house was bought in 1914 by a committee of citizens and given to the city in 1931.
The courtyard alone is worth the ticket, with its wellhead decorated with lion heads and its open 15th-century staircase.
On the second floor, three rooms tell the story of Goldoni and his Venice through paintings, furniture and the illustrations from the first editions of his comedies. The finest room is the one with the marionette theater from Palazzo Grimani ai Servi, with some thirty original 18th-century marionettes.
On the third floor is the library of the institute for theater studies, with texts and manuscripts. The house was bought in 1914 by a committee of citizens and given to the city in 1931.