An Andantino by Baldassare Galuppi

Abstract the tea m of Goldoni and Gallup once dominated musical comedy in the eighteenth century as Gilbert and Sullivan would later in the nineteenth. Carlo Goldoni wrote the words and Gallup the music for their La diavolessa (“The She-Devil”), a spoof on upper-class posturing and lower-class avarice. In the following text, Goldoni has Dorian, the gold-digging ingénue, sing in Venetian dialect to Don Poppone, an elderly gentleman, a scene typical of commedia dell’arte banter between the Dottier and perhaps Fravoletta or Pimpinella: