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Casino
- August 1, 2020
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No CommentsThe term casino is derived from Venetian and was akin to a club which could be rented out for social gatherings. Some were highly respectable meeting places for intellectual debate. Others were far more sordid. Alongside gambling were reports of rape, prostitution, fraud, violence and sexual depravity. Casanova has left us an account of -
What did eighteenth-century men want?
- July 25, 2020
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- Category: Flashbacks
Such is the gloom that surrounds settling down today and the glamour that attaches to mature bachelor freedom, it is hard to imagine that there was a time when marriage represented the summit of a young man's hopes. (Professor Amanda Vickery) Very entertaining and insightful Gresham College lecture on the eighteenth-century man’s desire to -
Walking tour podcast of Diderot and Diderot’s Paris
- July 18, 2020
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- Category: Venice and Paris
Engaging podcast contextualising Diderot’s life and writing - 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. #paris #diderot #eighteenthcentury #history
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