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  • Courting Henriette

    • April 28, 2018
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    The second of four blogs on Casanova's greatest love. It’s not difficult to see why Casanova was so attracted to Henriette nor why, over the coming months, his feelings for her were to become so intense.  There was, of course, the excitement surrounding their first meeting and the opportunity it had given him to play
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  • Meeting Henriette

    • April 11, 2018
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    The first of four blogs on Casanova's greatest love. Casanova found himself particularly attracted to strong and unorthodox women.  One such woman was Henriette, a French ‘adventuress’ whom he first encountered dressed as a soldier and who became his greatest love.  Their affair was to last three months.  He was twenty-three and she was significantly
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  • Zanetta Farussi

    • December 30, 2017
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    Zanetta Farussi - a small, fiery and unconventionally beautiful comedienne, according to contemporary critics – was a stage professional in an age when to be such implied, for a woman, a dual career.  Though not all actresses were whores and courtesans, it was certainly assumed that women willing to subject themselves to voyeuristic regard onstage
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