Welcome
… to the world of Giacomo Casanova …
the world of an extraordinary life that was much more than the romantic exploits of film legend.
Please feel free to explore the site and check out our incredible graphic novel, well over a score of history articles and hundreds of blogs. There’s no charge. But we would like to plug Dave’s two history books.
The first is Casanova’s Life & Times: Living in the Eighteenth Century (2023) published by specialist history publisher Pen & Sword. Chapter extracts are available here. Description, reviews and purchase here.
The second is Casanova and Enlightenment: His Study of Life and Other Writers (2024), due to be published later this year, also by Pen & Sword. Chapter extracts are available here. It is now available to preorder here.
Review of Casanova’s Life & Times and Casanova and Enlightenment
‘The bibliography on Casanova is wide and boundless, but rarely can there be found such clear and illuminating work on him as David Thompson’s two-volume project Casanova’s Life & Times and Casanova and Enlightenment. Anyone who is seeking a general survey of the eighteenth century and on Casanova himself will find these books to be accessible, comprehensive and original. Thompson’s work can legitimately stand amongst the indisepensable modern texts on Casanova.’
Gianluca Simeoni, Casanovan scholar and member of the editorial board of the academic journal Casanoviana
