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Giacomo Girolamo Casanova ( / ˌkæsəˈnoʊvə, ˌkæzə -/, [1] [2] [3] Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo dʒiˈrɔːlamo kazaˈnɔːva, kasa-]; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.
Aug 10, 2022 · Casanova was now both impoverished and ill from venereal disease. By 1774, after 18 years of exile, Casanova won the right to return to Venice. Nine years later, he wrote a vicious satire of the Venetian nobility that had him expelled again. In his later years, Casanova became librarian to Count Joseph Karl von Waldstein in Bohemia.
Jul 5, 2023 · July 5, 2023. Today, Casanova is best known as one of the most famous lovers in history. But the Venetian was more than a womanizer. He was a scam artist and scofflaw, an alchemist, spy and church cleric. He wrote satires, fought duels, and escaped from prison more than once. Giacomo Casanova. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
May 31, 2024 · Giacomo Casanova was an ecclesiastic, writer, soldier, spy, and diplomatist, chiefly remembered as the prince of Italian adventurers and as the man who made the name Casanova synonymous with “libertine.”
Jun 21, 2019 · Giacomo Casanova Was An Adventurer, Libertine, And Child Molester. By Andrew Milne. Published June 21, 2019. Updated July 9, 2019. Giacomo Casanova's memoirs are celebrated for their thorough depiction of life in 18th-century Europe, but they also detail the escapades of a serial rapist.
Who Was Casanova? The personal memoir of history’s most famous lover reveals a misunderstood intellectual who befriended the likes of Ben Franklin. Tony Perrottet. Contributing writer. April...
Giacomo Casanova must have indeed been a charming, charismatic and remarkably imaginative person. Despite this, his life ended in solitude in 1798 at the Castle of Dux in the northern part of today's Czech Republic.
Feb 7, 2023 · Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was born to two actors in the Venetian neighborhood of San Samuele. Much of what is known about his life came from his own pen; in middle age, he wrote...
Oct 20, 2016 · As his autobiography proves, Casanova was a talented writer and a man of great culture. He once met Voltaire and entertained learned conversations with him about politics and philosophy. He was friend with Da Ponte, writer of Mozart’s Don Giovanni’s libretto.
Nov 10, 2016 · A ‘Casanova’ is the consummate pick-up artist, a sexual adventurer of the type who was swiping right, metaphorically speaking at least, long before your mobile phone became a singles’...
