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‘History of My Life’ by Giacomo Casanova
- June 19, 2017
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- Category: Casanova
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When we mentioned to people that we were putting together a graphic novel on Casanova there was a certain amount of wink winking and nudge nudging. Casanova the archetypal womaniser is what comes to most people’s minds. And it is true, he was a man who was fascinated by love and love-making. In terms of -
The Atlas of Orlando Furioso
- October 19, 2019
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- Category: Flashbacks
Ludovico Ariosto’s epic romance poem was an Italian renaissance masterpiece that Casanova first read when he was sixteen and which exerted an enormous influence over him for the rest of his life. He claimed to read it two or three times every year and to know off by heart pretty much all 40,000 lines -
Roots of the Encyclopédie
- October 12, 2019
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- Category: Venice and Paris
A great little five-minute TED animation on the roots of the Encyclopédie - here. The Encyclopédie was one of the great intellectual achievements of the Enlightenment, its publication and production underway at a time when Casanova was living in Paris. For a bit more of an investigation into the Encyclopédie and how it was -
Calms and storms
- October 5, 2019
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- Category: Behind the Scenes
A common narrative device in the manipulation of tension is to intersperse points of calm before and after periods of excitement. This allows both space for tension to build and the establishment of a strong contrast in order to maximise the effect of the event when it arrives and for the audience to adjust
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