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A thousand-year-old empire
- February 20, 2021
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No CommentsAn extract from Dave’s article ‘The Early Life of Casanova’, one of the six articles on the site which are available free to all. “Casanova was born at a time when the thousand-year-old, sea-borne empire that was Venice was no longer the political, military and commercial powerhouse that it had once been. By the end -
The beginning
- February 6, 2021
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Here’s an extract from Dave’s article ‘The Early Life of Casanova’, one of the 27 articles on the site which are freely available to all. “Giacomo Casanova was born in Venice, 2nd April, 1725. Just over a year earlier, his then 16-year-old mother, Zanetta Farusi, had eloped with, and married, a penniless actor-dancer called Gaetan-Joseph-Jacques Casanova -
The Seven Years War
- January 23, 2021
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The key political event that acts as the backdrop to ‘Casanova Shadows’, in particular Part 2, is the Seven Years War which raged from 1756 to 1763, beginning the year prior to Casanova’s flight to Paris after his escape from the prisons of the Venetian inquisition in 1757. The Seven Years War is regarded as
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