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  • Iceland’s 1783 killer cloud

    • November 23, 2019
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      A short 8-minute BBC Timewatch video that describes one of those fascinating natural events that had major political consequences, possibly even playing a part in the French Revolution – here. You can also find an article by David Bressan on the eruption -  here.   ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is
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  • The duel – an extract from Casanova’s memoirs

    • October 26, 2019
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      See previous blog post for more information about Casanova’s duel with Count Branicki – here.   We had driven about half an hour when the carriage stopped at the door of a large garden. We got down and, following the postoli, reached a green arbour which, by the way, was not at all green
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  • The Atlas of Orlando Furioso

    • October 19, 2019
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      Ludovico Ariosto’s epic romance poem was an Italian renaissance masterpiece that Casanova first read when he was sixteen and which exerted an enormous influence over him for the rest of his life.  He claimed to read it two or three times every year and to know off by heart pretty much all 40,000 lines
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