He adapted a work by Tirso de Molina into Le droghe d'amore and a work by Cervantes into La donna inamorata davvero.  
He served as informal head of the Venetian literary group known as Accademia Granellesca.  A prolific dramatist, most of his plays belong to a class he labeled "fiabe", including The King Stag and Il corvo.  He adapted a work by Tirso de Molina into Le droghe d'amore and a work by Cervantes into La donna inamorata davvero.  His first play, Il teatro comico all'osteria del Pellegrino, employed a four-headed monster that represented his feud with contemporaries Pietro Chiari and Carlo Goldoni.  FTP, identify this 18th c. Italian dramatist and author of Turandot and The Love of Three Oranges.
He served as informal head of the Venetian literary group known as Accademia Granellesca.  
Carlo Gozzi