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  • Sleeping with the enemy

    • January 13, 2018
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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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  • Escape from ‘Il Piombi’

    • December 27, 2017
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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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