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‘The 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 -
Casanova’s women
- November 17, 2018
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- Category: Character Focus
Apart from obscuring so much of what is interesting about him, Casanova’s historical reputation as a womaniser has, ironically, also obscured the nature of his relationship with women. The great libertine was, in fact, in some ways very atypical when it came to women. The libertine creed regarded the pursuit of sexual pleasure as -
Casanova: the seduction of Europe
- November 10, 2018
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High quality, illustrated resource summarising Casanova’s life and travels in the context of the eighteenth century - here ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here. 27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here. #casanova #europe #eighteenth century -
Strappado
- November 3, 2018
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- Category: Flashbacks
In chapter 8 (‘Threads’), Casanova and Stefano interrogate a captured spy by tying his wrists together behind his back and hoisting him up high into the air using a beam and pulley mechanism, threatening to drop him and then stop his fall abruptly in mid-air. This was the strappado, a technique invented by the
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