Excerpt from The Good-Humoured Ladies: A Comedy<br><br>Goldoni met, in Venice, a beautiful woman who was called Zanetta Casanova and La Buranella: she played young lover's parts in comedies, she did not know one note of music, she had a perfect ear and she pleased the public. Goldoni mentions the fact that, being in Mantua, April, 1747, his friend the Director of the Theatre Medebac secured rooms for him in the house of Madame Balletti: C'étoit une ancienne Comédienne.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.