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  • Sleeping with the enemy

    • September 11, 2021
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      After his escape from ‘Il Piombi’ on 1st November, 1756 Casanova spent the next two months as a fugitive making his way to Paris, where he was to arrive 5th January 1757 – pretty good progress in the eighteenth century for a man on the run travelling in the depths of winter.  The first
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  • The day Robert Damiens tried to kill Louis XV

    • August 21, 2021
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    Two months after his escape from 'Il Piombi' Casanova arrives in Paris in the company of the family of Madame Riviere, on the day that Robert Damiens attempted to kill Louis XV.  Here's his account of that day: We reached Paris on the 5th of January, 1757, and I went to the house of my
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  • Escape from ‘Il Piombi’

    • July 24, 2021
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    On 26th July 1755 Giacomo Casanova exchanged the pleasures of the life of a Venetian libertine for that of an inmate in ‘Il Piombi’ (‘The Leads’).  His cramped, backache-inducing cell was larchwood-lined, measured eight feet by ten feet and was five feet in height (Casanova was himself over six feet).  The entrance was a lofty three
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