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Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (/ ˌ k æ s ə ˈ n oʊ v ə, ˌ k æ z ə-/, Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo dʒiˈrɔːlamo kazaˈnɔːva, kasa-]; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic and provocative sources of information about the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. Casanova was known to use pseudonyms, such as ...
Jul 5, 2023 · Church to military to music… and womanizing. Born in Venice in 1725, Casanova was a sharp child—so sharp, in fact, that he entered the University of Padua at the age of 12. After graduating, he took up some of the vices that would make him a name Europe-wide. Gambling, for one.
Aug 10, 2022 · After a period of successful money-making through gambling, Casanova set off on a Grand Tour, reaching Paris in 1750.His new play La Moluccheide was staged at the Royal Theatre, where his mother often performed as lead.. He escaped from prison. In 1755, aged 30, Casanova was arrested for affront to religion and common decency.
Casanova: Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt. The fabled romantic Giacomo Casanova, after failing to win the affection of the Venetian woman Francesca Bruni, strives to discover the real meaning of love.
Jun 21, 2019 · Bettina cared for his hair, brushing out the vestiges of neglect from the Paduan landlady. “She washed my face and neck and chest,” Casanova later recalled, “and gave me childish caresses which, since I was bound to consider them innocent, chided myself for letting them trouble me all the more….She aroused the most intense emotions in me.”
4 days ago · Giacomo Casanova (born April 2, 1725, Venice [Italy]—died June 4, 1798, Dux, Bohemia [now Duchcov, Czech Republic]) 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.” His autobiography, which perhaps exaggerates some of his escapades, is a splendid description of 18th-century society in the capitals of Europe.. The son of an actor, Casanova was ...
Venetian nights: Casanova’s romantic life began at 17, while he was a seminary student (the Grand Canal). Francesco Lastrucci
Feb 7, 2023 · His father, Gaetano Casanova, hailed originally from Parma before moving to Venice and joining a theater company in the 1720s. The actor fell in love with a talented teenaged actress named Zanetta ...
Nov 10, 2016 · Casanova is code for cad, rake and roué. A ‘Casanova’ is the consummate pick-up artist, a sexual adventurer of the type who was swiping right, metaphorically speaking at least, long before ...
Jun 20, 2022 · Casanova had a sideline, of course, which has earned him eponymous immortality; most of us, I’d venture to say, have met “a real Casanova.”
