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  • Casanova and Voltaire – part 3

    • July 25, 2018
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    The third of four blogs on the relationship between Casanova and Voltaire. At the age of thirty-five, Casanova had the opportunity to meet the great man.  In 1759 (the year, incidentally, that Voltaire had published Candide) Casanova was rich, a consequence of the Paris lottery he had helped to found, subsidies from the Marquise d’Urfé
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  • Surgery in the century before anaesthetics

    • July 21, 2018
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      “Eighteenth-century surgeons prided themselves on fast amputations, as well as procedures such as removing bladder stones, cancers, and even cataracts from the eye.” Fillmore Randolph’s engrossing and informative account of surgery in the 1700s - here. Also, a fascinating Daniel Hahn article on John Hunter, the eighteenth-century Scotsman credited with being the father of
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  • Art in eighteenth-century Venice

    • July 18, 2018
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      The Met museum’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is a great resource for anyone interested in Venetian art in the eighteenth century.  A central essay containing links allows you to explore a wide range of painters, themes and historical contexts – here. ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here. 27
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