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Self-slaughter
- June 8, 2019
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More than once in his life Casanova considered doing away with himself, most notably as a consequence of his dealings with the duplicitous courtesan Marie Ann Charpillon. Besotted with her and having been duped in to believing she was on her death bed he prepares to throw himself off Westminster Bridge: “The doctor is -
Casanova’s lottery
- May 4, 2019
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This transcript of the 2003 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture of the University of Chicago takes a close look at the Paris lottery that Casanova was instrumental in founding – 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. -
‘Casanova, Art, and Eroticism’
- March 30, 2019
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“In all its splendor and misery, love dominates the life of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798). As the hero of the memoirs he started writing in 1789, when he was sixty-four and living in exile in Bohemia, Casanova performs as ardent lover, callous libertine, amiable friend, and suitor wronged. His amorous adventures begin at the tender age
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