query: country_of_origin i quatro rusteghi
supports: Venetian or Venetan (Venetian: ', ' or ") is a Romance language spoken as a native language by almost four million people in the northeast of Italy, mostly in the Veneto region of Italy, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it. It is sometimes spoken and often well understood outside Veneto, in Trentino, Friuli, Venezia Giulia, Istria, and some towns of Dalmatia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Brazil, Mexico, and Romania. The Republic of Venice, or traditionally known as the Most Serene Republic of Venice, was a state originating from the lagoon communities in the area of Venice, now northeastern Italy. It existed from the late seventh century AD until 1797. Although it had a long history of war and conquest, the republic's modern reputation is chiefly based on its status as an economic and trading power. I quatro rusteghi ( The Four Curmudgeons , sometimes given as School for Fathers ) is a comic opera in three acts , music by Ermanno Wolf - Ferrari to a text by Luigi Sugana and Giuseppe Pizzolato based on Carlo Goldoni 's 18th - century play I rusteghi . The opera is in Venetian dialect ( hence `` quatro '' in place of `` quattro '' ) . Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707  6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title "Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade," which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him. Arcadia ("Arkadía") is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese. It is situated in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas. In Greek mythology, it was the home of the god Pan. In European Renaissance arts, Arcadia was celebrated as an unspoiled, harmonious wilderness. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (born Ermanno Wolf) (January 12, 1876  January 21, 1948) was an Italian composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as "Il segreto di Susanna" (1909). A number of his works were based on plays by Carlo Goldoni, including "Le donne curiose" (1903), "I quatro rusteghi" (1906) and "Il campiello" (1936). Venice (; ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is situated across a group of 117 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by bridges. These are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers. Parts of Venice are renowned for the beauty of their settings, their architecture, and artwork. The lagoon and a part of the city are listed as a World Heritage Site.
candidates: greece italy republic of venice romania slovenia
answer: italy