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Cliffhangers
- October 25, 2017
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Audience feedback we received from our smaller, printed version of ‘Casanova in Paris’ suggested that we hadn’t given enough attention to cliff-hangers (a term which we loosely use to mean a moment of dramatic interest, not necessarily always a moment of suspense). There were dangers, however, in simply shoe-horning in new cliff-hangers: they might appear -
Giuseppe
- October 21, 2017
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The character Giuseppe Pompeati is based upon a real boy of that name whose mother was an old flame of Casanova’s teenage youth called Teresa Imer. They had a brief encounter again some years later, the consequence of which was a daughter called Sophie who Teresa, now Teresa Pompeati, passed off as her husband’s. When -
Priesthood
- October 18, 2017
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- Category: Casanova
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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