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Soldaat die zijn musket, steunend op zijn furket, afvuurt (nr. 12), ca. 1600, Jacob de Gheyn (II), Robert de Baudous, Hendrick Laurensz, 1597 - 1608
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'Wheel of Fortune' by Kev Butters, artist of 'Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King' - an online graphic novel created by Kev Butters and Dave Th..
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Casanova and Voltaire - part 4
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Radical philosophes
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Murder by women in eighteenth-century London and Paris
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Conflict
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The Ridotto, the centre of gambling in Venice. During this period, Casanova developed a taste for gambling which was to remain with him throughout hi..
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San Cipriano seminary. At 18 his beloved grandmother died. The same year, 1743, he was expelled from San Cipriano seminary, after being discovered i..
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Sant'Andrea (Venetian Lagoon) - To try and teach him a lesson, Casanova was imprisoned for a short time by his guardians in the fortress of Sant’And..
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His mother, Zanetta Farussi, meanwhile was using her influence to salvage a career for him in the church, resulting in him leaving Venice and travelli..
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View of the Tiber Looking Towards the Castel Sant'Angelo, with Saint Peter's in the Distance. At Rome, further scandal ensued and he was forced to dep..
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Casanova was 19 at this point and that was when he met Bellino for whom he fell passionately in love. However, Bellino was a castrato.
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Eighteenth-century caricature of castrati performing Handel. In a practice that can be traced back many centuries, and at least to the early Byzantin..
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By the eighteenth-century, there had been established in Italy a tradition of supplying castrated boys to the choirs of the Catholic Church for two ce..
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Farinelli. The castrati became the superstars of their day and the most successful amongst them could earn huge sums. One such was Farinelli (1705 â..
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Casanova came across Bellino at an inn in Ancona on 25th February, 1744 along with his mother, a brother (Petronio, ‘the first female dancer at the ..
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Casanova was convinced that Bellino was female. This was not an unreasonable supposition for him to make. Despite heavy penalties if discovered, the ..
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Bologna. Casanova was correct and Bellino was, in fact, a woman. Bellino’s true name, according to Casanova, was Teresa Lanti, the daughter of a ..
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Felice Salimberi. At one time Bellino's/Lanti's family let an apartment in their house to a castrato called Salimberi who took a liking to the 12-yea..
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The two became lovers and the plan was that they would go to Dresden and live together discretely. Salimberi, however, died before they could execute..
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Casanova himself was completely smitten by Bellino and the couple tried to elope, planning to travel to Constantinople via Rimini but Casanova lost hi..
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While Casanova was in Bologna, Bellino, having renounced her status as a castrato, had been made a lucrative offer as prima-donna at the San Carlo The..
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, above, would not have attended such a gathering as he is supposed to have done by Lemonnier. Unfortunately, the orthodoxy of ..
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Although the concept of the salon as a social institution had been around since the very late nineteenth century, historians did not ascribe to it the..
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