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The birthplace and childhood home of Carlo Goldoni, Venice's greatest playwright and the reformer who transformed Italian commedia dell'arte from improvised scenarios into scripted literary comedy during the eighteenth century. The fifteenth-century Gothic palazzo in the San Polo sestiere, with its characteristic well-head courtyard and external staircase, operates as a museum dedicated to Goldoni's life, work, and the theatrical culture of eighteenth-century Venice. The collection includes ori...