« I’m a whore » ? L’auteur dramatique dans les livrets italiens d’opéra buffa au xviii^e siècle : La Bella Verità de Carlo Goldoni et Niccolò Piccinni

The article discusses the presence of the author in the libretto La Bella Verità (1762) by Carlo Goldoni as it relates to the format of the eighteenth century Italian comic métaopéra. In this opera buffa, the character of the fictional author Loran Glodici represents Goldoni’s approach to theatrical creation , at the time of Goldoni’s arrival at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris: for him, authorship can only be achieved through fruitful exchange with the specific and unique knowledge of the actors.