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Saint-Gobain Mirror Glass Manufactory
- December 2, 2017
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Here’s a fascinating interactive 3D animation (sounds, visuals and narrative) of the eighteenth-century Saint-Gobain Mirror Glass Manufactory (owned by legendary Parisian hostess and patron, Madam Geoffrin). ‘The Prologue', and chapters 1 and 2 of 'Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King' are now freely available here. 6 long form articles on Casanova's life -
From rent boy to hierophant
- November 22, 2017
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November 1745 to March 1746 represented the low point of Casanova’s young life to date. This highly educated and ambitious young man who just a couple of years before had been socialising with the cream of Venetian society was now scraping by as a lowly fiddler in the small theatre of San Samuele where -
Venice, Canaletto and Casanova
- November 15, 2017
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Below is a YouTube link to a fascinating hour-long talk given by Frederick Ilchman which covers Venice, Canaletto and Casanova, the two men being pretty much contemporaries. Casanova is introduced about 27 minutes in. There are a couple of little inaccuracies (Casanova’s involvement in the Paris lottery began in 1757, not 1756, and he
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