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The beginning
- February 6, 2021
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No CommentsHere’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 -
Sounds (and sights) of eighteenth-century Paris
- January 16, 2021
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Here’s a great bit of historical re-creation for anyone who might be interested in what eighteenth-century Paris would have sounded (and looked) like for the characters in our novel: https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/sound-18th-century-paris 'Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King' is now freely available here. 27 long form articles on Casanova's life and times are freely available
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