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Casanova’s places
- January 19, 2019
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To help to get a better idea of where Casanova was born and brought up, Venice’s Casanova Museum has put together a collection of images and descriptions of places in Venice frequented by Casanova or linked to him in some way - here ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here. -
The inoculation debate in 18th-century France
- January 12, 2019
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Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images Casanova’s autobiography frequently refers to smallpox and its effects, such as in the case of ‘fair Anglade’: [she] accepted a very advantageous proposal which was made her by Count Brawn. This charming Frenchwoman died of the small-pox a few months later, and there can be no doubt that -
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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