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To Constantinople
- April 10, 2021
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- Category: Casanova
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At nineteen, in Rome, Casanova’s career in the Church still seemed to be on track. However, it became known that he had had an affair with a woman called Anna Maria d’Antoni Vallati and Cardinal Acquaviva, his protector in Rome, advised that it would be in his interests to leave the Eternal City. Asked where -
The salon myth
- March 27, 2021
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- Category: Venice and Paris
Many people with a passing interest in history will be familiar with the Enlightenment salons of 18th century Paris, lead by such redoubtable salonnières as Madame Geoffrin and Madame Deffand. Salon culture was supposedly a gathering of the high-minded and sophisticated elite of French society and beyond, bound together by the sort of radical -
Cliffhangers
- March 20, 2021
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- Category: Behind the Scenes
Audience feedback we received from our smaller, printed version of ‘Casanova in Paris’ suggested that we hadn’t given enough attention to cliff-hangers (a term which we loosely use to mean a moment of dramatic interest, not necessarily always a moment of suspense). There were dangers, however, in simply shoe-horning in new cliff-hangers: they might appear
