📗 Excerpt from IL Vero AmicoHe came rightfully by his love for the theatre, for both his father and grandfather were lovers of pleas nre. The latter possessed a villa near Venice where actors, musicians and friends came together and when melodramas and comedies were represented. Besides, his father had a puppet show at home which he worked himself, much to his boy's delight. Thus, during the years of childhood, while his mother did what she could to educate him and his father to amuse him, Charles was developing a strong love for the stage. In his M emoz'rs, he recalls reading with keen enjoyment the comedies of Cigognini and then tells of composing an original comedy himself when eight years old.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.