The book by the French researcher Françoise Decroisette, based on broad historical material, recreates the social and cultural life of the Venetian Republic in the 18th century, the time of its heyday and “decline”. Carlo Goldoni was not just a native of Venice - for many he became a Venetian with a capital V, a creator , who brought to the stage and immortalized all the problems, hopes and aspirations that his contemporaries lived with.