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  • Escape from ‘Il Piombi’

    • July 24, 2021
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    On 26th July 1755 Giacomo Casanova exchanged the pleasures of the life of a Venetian libertine for that of an inmate in ‘Il Piombi’ (‘The Leads’).  His cramped, backache-inducing cell was larchwood-lined, measured eight feet by ten feet and was five feet in height (Casanova was himself over six feet).  The entrance was a lofty three
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  • Casanova’s unwanted escape

    • December 15, 2018
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    Casanova’s first great love was Bellino, a woman who had disguised herself as a castrato (a castrated opera singer with a unique singing voice that made them highly fashionable and capable of earning huge sums of money).  He was nineteen at the time.  They had decided to elope to Rimini when fate intervened.  Casanova had
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