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  • An unusual libertine

    • June 15, 2019
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      One of the issues we had to deal with regarding our portrayal of Casanova was his relationship with women.  For most people the only thing they know about him is that he was a notorious philanderer.  And, of course, his promiscuity was a significant feature of his life although it has been exaggerated to
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  • Age of consent

    • April 27, 2019
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    Casanova was typical of his time in regarding 13 as a very marriageable age.  In fact, in 1800, 63-year-old Sir John Acton (portrait) married his 13-year-old niece, Mary Ann Acton, (albeit with special papal dispensation) and was to go on to have children with her.  One of the most conspicuous shifts in moral attitudes that
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  • Marquise d’ Urfé

    • June 6, 2018
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    The Marquise d’Urfé is based upon a real historical figure who we have dramatically reimagined.  D’Urfé was the richest woman in France by dint of her marriage to an immensely rich nobleman who died when she was only 29 (there were, of course, the inevitable rumours that she’d bumped him off).  She was a highly
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