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  • Goldoni

    • January 25, 2020
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    Venice’s most successful and beloved playwright and poet of the eighteenth century was Carlo Goldoni (1707 – 1793) whose work is still alive and kicking, most recently in the guise of the Broadway and West End hit ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ which is based upon Goldoni’s ‘Servant of Two Masters’.  There has been some speculation
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  • Laforgue

    • January 4, 2020
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    Some of the misconceptions around Casanova can be traced back to the early nineteenth-century editions and translations of his memoirs, many of them heavily edited, bowdlerised and generally abused. Particularly influential was the Laforgue edition which was to become the basis of various other subsequent translations and versions, including the freely available online Arthur Machen
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  • Casanova, a potted history

    • November 30, 2019
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      A nice little potted history by Hephzibah Anderson on Casanova, the legend and his memoirs – here.   Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here.  27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here.   #casanova #eighteenthcentury #biography
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