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In his mock-heroic poem La Marfisa bizzarra, Count Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806) uses historical fiction to picture 18th-century Venice as Paris under Charle¬ magne's reign, when the Emperor is an old man and the Paladins of his court have forgotten their past heroism. Gozzi depicts his enemies, the advocates of new enlightened ideas within this framework of general decline. According to him, these ideas had spread subversion in Venice, in a reign of irréligion encouraged by the mistakes of a degenerate clergy who were unable to keep under control a society ready for any kind of upheaval.
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In his mock-heroic poem La Marfisa bizzarra, Count Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806) uses historical fiction to picture 18th-century Venice as Paris under Charle¬ magne's reign, when the Emperor is an old man and the Paladins of his court have forgotten their past heroism. Gozzi depicts his enemies, the advocates of new enlightened ideas within this framework of general decline. According to him, these ideas had spread subversion in Venice, in a reign of irréligion encouraged by the mistakes of a degenerate clergy who were unable to keep under control a society ready for any kind of upheaval.
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