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  • ‘History of My Life’ by Giacomo Casanova

    • June 19, 2017
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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
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  • The would-not-be mistress

    • August 8, 2020
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      Unlike courtesans (see previous blog on the topic here), mistresses were more likely to be married and any economic interaction was less overt, taking the form of gifts rather than money.  They were also more likely to be from the same social milieu as their benefactor although their status and that of their husbands
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  • Casino

    • August 1, 2020
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      The term casino is derived from Venetian and was akin to a club which could be rented out for social gatherings. Some were highly respectable meeting places for intellectual debate.  Others were far more sordid.  Alongside gambling were reports of rape, prostitution, fraud, violence and sexual depravity. Casanova has left us an account of
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  • What did eighteenth-century men want?

    • July 25, 2020
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      Such is the gloom that surrounds settling down today and the glamour that attaches to mature bachelor freedom, it is hard to imagine that there was a time when marriage represented the summit of a young man's hopes.  (Professor Amanda Vickery) Very entertaining and insightful Gresham College lecture on the eighteenth-century man’s desire to
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