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Zanetta Farussi
- July 31, 2021
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- Category: Character Focus
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Zanetta Farussi - a small, fiery and unconventionally beautiful comedienne, according to contemporary critics – was a stage professional in an age when to be such implied, for a woman, a dual career. Though not all actresses were whores and courtesans, it was certainly assumed that women willing to subject themselves to voyeuristic regard onstage -
Under arrest
- June 19, 2021
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- Category: Casanova
After almost 10 years of the high life, for Casanova the fun and games abruptly stopped. Here’s an extract from his autobiography of the moment on 26th July, 1755 he was placed under arrest. What a strange and unexplained power certain words exercise upon the soul! I, who the evening before so bravely fortified myself -
From rent boy to hierophant
- May 15, 2021
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November 1745 to March 1746 represented the low point of Casanova’s young life to date. This highly educated and ambitious young man who just a couple of years before had been socialising with the cream of Venetian society was now scraping by as a lowly fiddler in the small theatre of San Samuele where
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