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  • The hunter and the hunted – the script

    • August 20, 2023
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      In a recent blog we discussed the first meeting between Casanova and The Southerner.  Well here’s an extract from the script for the scene above that Kev used as the basis for the drawing.  Once Dave has written the script, Kev doesn’t have to follow it but can play around with it to his
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  • The Devil

    • August 12, 2023
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    The Devil makes his initial appearance in ‘Casanova in Paris’ in chapter 4 (‘Places des Fleurs’) as one of a set of gargoyles decorating Pont Neuf during a scene in which Casanova is reflecting upon his negative feelings towards his mother.  The Devil then takes pride of place in two major dream sequences that reflect
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  • The inoculation debate in 18th-century France

    • July 29, 2023
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    Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images   Casanova’s autobiography frequently refers to smallpox and its effects, such as in the case of ‘fair Anglade’: [she] accepted a very advantageous proposal which was made her by Count Brawn. This charming Frenchwoman died of the small-pox a few months later, and there can be no doubt that
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