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  • Priesthood

    • October 18, 2017
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    Given his reputation as one of the world’s most notorious libertines it may (or indeed, perhaps, may not) come as a surprise to learn that Casanova was initially destined for a career in the Church.  In 1737, at the age of 12, he enrolled at Padua University to study Law, a valuable qualification for someone
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  • Crime and punishment

    • June 19, 2017
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    During his lifetime Casanova will have witnessed a sea-change in Europe in terms of its attitudes towards crime and punishment. Largely because of the influence of Enlightenment ideas, the fate awaiting felons at the start of the eighteenth-century was very different to that awaiting them at the end. Fortunately for Casanova, who was imprisoned on
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  • A thousand-year-old empire

    • June 19, 2017
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    An extract from Dave’s article ‘The Early Life of Casanova’, one of the six articles on the site which are available free to all. “Casanova was born at a time when the thousand-year-old, sea-borne empire that was Venice was no longer the political, military and commercial powerhouse that it had once been. By the end
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