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  • Rough Justice

    • May 23, 2020
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    By the standards of his time, Casanova would not have been regarded as an overly aggressive man.  He would not, for example, physically coerce a woman into having sex.  If she resisted and he could not persuade her to change her mind then he would not persevere.  This was very different to the attitudes of
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  • Opinions of Casanova

    • April 18, 2020
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    Following the publication of a range of adulterated, embellished, salacious and poorly edited versions of Casanova’s memoirs, the Venetian was treated by many as either a fantasist or depraved and probably both.  Casanovists such as biographer James Rives Childs, however, have found evidence in the historical record which has corroborated much of what he wrote,
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  • Stefano

    • March 14, 2020
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    One of the central characters of ‘Casanova in Paris’ is the monk Stefano.  He is based upon a real person with whom Casanova had a short stormy acquaintance with as he travelled from Ancona to Rome.  While coarse, lazy and ill-educated, nonetheless, Stefano rescued Casanova from a number of difficult situations.  Here Casanova describes their
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