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Crime and punishment
- February 27, 2021
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No CommentsDuring his lifetime Casanova will have witnessed a sea-change in Europe in terms of its attitudes towards crime and punishment. Largely because of the influence of Enlightenment ideas, the fate awaiting felons at the start of the eighteenth-century was very different to that awaiting them at the end. Fortunately for Casanova, who was imprisoned on -
The Seven Years War
- January 23, 2021
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The key political event that acts as the backdrop to ‘Casanova Shadows’, in particular Part 2, is the Seven Years War which raged from 1756 to 1763, beginning the year prior to Casanova’s flight to Paris after his escape from the prisons of the Venetian inquisition in 1757. The Seven Years War is regarded as -
Vasi’s 1748 engraving of Rome
- December 26, 2020
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Giuseppe Vasi’s map of Rome is astonishing in its scale and detail. An article on the work by Professor John E Moore’s can be found on the British Library site 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
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