Gozzi, Gasparo, Count

Gozzi, Gasparo, Count

▪ Italian author
born Dec. 4, 1713, Venice [Italy]
died Dec. 27, 1786, Padua, Venetia

      Italian poet, prose writer, journalist, and critic. He is remembered for a satire that revived interest in Dante and for his two periodicals, which brought the journalistic style of the 18th-century English essayists Joseph Addison and Richard Steele to Italy.

      An early member, with his dramatist brother Carlo Gozzi, of the purist Granelleschi Academy, Gasparo Gozzi became known for verse satires and Difesa di Dante (1758; “Defense of Dante”), an attack on the critic Saviero Bettinelli for preferring Virgil to Dante as a model for Italian poets. More important was his publication and, in large part, his writing of two periodicals similar in style to those of Addison and Steele: La Gazzetta Veneta (1760–61), a chronicle of Venetian life, and L'Osservatore (1761–62), a literary, philosophical, and theatrical review containing character sketches and satirical works.

      Gozzi also wrote a romance, some occasional verse, translations of French works, and many letters. He was a press censor in 1762 and an educational official in 1764.

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