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  • Gambling

    • October 9, 2021
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      Casanova had a keen interest in gambling, both as a participant and as a spectator.  It was his insight into the psychology of gambling that enabled him to be one of the key figures in the founding of the 1757 Paris lottery, by far the most successful lottery in the history of Europe up
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  • 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
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  • Casanova’s lottery

    • May 4, 2019
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    This transcript of the 2003 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture of the University of Chicago takes a close look at the Paris lottery that Casanova was instrumental in founding – here.   Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here.  27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here.
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