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  • To Constantinople

    • April 10, 2021
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    At nineteen, in Rome, Casanova’s career in the Church still seemed to be on track.  However, it became known that he had had an affair with a woman called Anna Maria d’Antoni Vallati and Cardinal Acquaviva, his protector in Rome, advised that it would be in his interests to leave the Eternal City.  Asked where
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  • The salon myth

    • March 27, 2021
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      Many people with a passing interest in history will be familiar with the Enlightenment salons of 18th century Paris, lead by such redoubtable salonnières as Madame Geoffrin and Madame Deffand.  Salon culture was supposedly a gathering of the high-minded and sophisticated elite of French society and beyond, bound together by the sort of radical
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  • A thousand-year-old empire

    • February 20, 2021
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    An 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
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