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  • The Atlas of Orlando Furioso

    • October 19, 2019
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      Ludovico Ariosto’s epic romance poem was an Italian renaissance masterpiece that Casanova first read when he was sixteen and which exerted an enormous influence over him for the rest of his life.  He claimed to read it two or three times every year and to know off by heart pretty much all 40,000 lines
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  • The Duel

    • September 21, 2019
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    Prior to writing his masterpiece History of my life, Casanova had penned two previous autobiographical works The Duel and History of my flight from the prison of the Republic of Venice.  His duel with Count Branicki was so notorious at the time that it was even reported in the London press.   In an article
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  • The prologue

    • August 31, 2019
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      The original version of ‘Casanova in Paris’ never included a prologue but for several reasons we decided to create one, even though that meant beginning the novel with quite a lot of text which for some readers of graphic novels might be a bit off-putting.  It fleshes out his character and establishes his turbulent
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