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  • Crime and punishment

    • June 19, 2017
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    During his lifetime Casanova will have witnessed a sea-change in Europe in terms of its attitudes towards crime and punishment. Largely because of the influence of Enlightenment ideas, the fate awaiting felons at the start of the eighteenth-century was very different to that awaiting them at the end. Fortunately for Casanova, who was imprisoned on
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  • A thousand-year-old empire

    • June 19, 2017
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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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  • The beginning

    • June 19, 2017
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    Here’s an extract from Dave’s article ‘The Early Life of Casanova’, one of the six 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
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