Pietro Chiari
Pietro Chiari (born December 25, 1712 in Brescia ; † August 31, 1785 ibid) was an Italian poet and novelist .
Pietro Chiari belonged to the Jesuits , later became a secular clergyman and lived in Venice from 1747 to 1762 . In 1748 Chiari began his work as a playwright for Giuseppe Imer's troupe at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice. There he stages La scuola delle vedove , a parody of Goldonis Vedova scaltra . In 1754 he was in Venice by the Duke of Modena Francesco III. d'Este crowned court poet. In a short series of years he wrote more than 60 comedies , through which he tried to compete with Carlo Goldoni . Pietro Chiari last lived in Brescia again.
His dramatic works appeared collectively as Commedie (Venice 1756, 10 volumes, and Bologna 1759–62), to which Nuova raccolta di commedie (Venice 1762) and Tragedie (Bologna 1792) came.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Chiari, Peter . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 340 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Pietro Chiari in the catalog of the German National Library
- CHIARI, Pietro. I privilegi dell'ignoranza - Lettere d'una Americana ad un Letterato d'Europa (1784; PDF; 8.2 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chiari, Pietro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1712 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brescia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1785 |
| Place of death | Brescia |