AURORA Carlo Goldoni Limited Edition 0495/1793 Fountain Pen Export (Black Mask)

Description

AURORA Carlo Goldoni (1707 - 1793)
Limited Edition 0495/1793 Fountain Pen 18k M w/ Black Mask
Year: 1993
Model: Goldoni
18k - 750 Aurora Medium (M) Nib
The pen is in
guilloché
sterling silver and is built on the classical Aurora Optima chassis
Limited edition: 0495/1793
Accompaniments: Maker's presentation box, outer packaging and related literature
Write to live or live to write?
In Goldoni's case the difference is negligible.
Goldoni translated life into theatre, human weaknesses into
performances, characteristics into universal masks
His own life
was as an intensive masterpiece, dense with stage tricks and rich with lite
rary polemics, like a stage animated by nobles, commoners, bourgeois,
actors and primadonnas.
The theatre was Carlo Goldoni's first love: the meeting point between life
and writing.
Words are given life and humanity crystallizes in emblematic cha
racters such as Mirandolina, la Locandiera per eccellenza (The excellent
hostess), and Arlecchino servitore di due padroni (Harlequin servant of two
masters), which owe their popularity to Goldoni.
Venetian by birth but with the
vocation of a free spirit, Goldoni travelled a great deal, mentally and physically.
Re-reading and re-seeing him at the theatre, it's difficult to believe his w
orks were written two centuries ago; perfor
med and loved all over the world, they are still
fresh yet topical, profound yet unconventional,
acute yet frivolous, classical yet shocking.
Even today, on the celebration of his Bi
centenary, Carlo Goldoni is a difficult character
to grasp: the life of a writer or a writer of life?
This fountain pen is a tribute to Carlo Goldoni's creative force: precious like his literary style, exclusive like his genius talent, classical like his theatrical masterpieces.
To celebrate the Bicentenary of Carlo Goldoni means to give homage to one of the greatest theatrical authors, and to honour the Artist who created the greatest human play of all time, reminding the world of a precious inheritance left by an authentic genius of the theatre.
An exclusive and numbered series limited in only 1793 pieces is distributed worldwide, while a similar series exists for Italy.
Expert goldsmith and silversmith masters have created the guilloché "Venezia" and the central ring, where the masks from the "Commedia dell'Arte" frame the commemoration date.
The solid silver working is marked with a punch of antique workmanship.
The nib is in solid 18k gold, the nib holder in ebonite, and the grip is turned.
This pen has been previously used and inked and comes complete with box and papers (Export model, black mask)
Some tarnishing to the silver work. Handling micro scratches.
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