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Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (/ ˌkæsəˈnoʊvə, ˌkæzə -/; [1][2][3] Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo dʒiˈrɔːlamo kazaˈnɔːva, kasa-]; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. [4][5] His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic and provocative sources of inform...
- Church to Military to Music… and Womanizing
- Escapades and Imprisonment
- Casanova’s Daring Escape
- Casanova’s Many Scams
Born in Venicein 1725, Casanova was a sharp child—so sharp, in fact, that he entered the University of Padua at the age of 12. After graduating, he took up some of the vices that would make him a name Europe-wide. Gambling, for one. Women, for another. Whether it was his wit, his charm, or his style (or maybe just his hair, which he powdered, scent...
News of Casanova’s escapades – his tawdry affairs with everyone from married women to nuns to virgins, his gambling, his association with Freemasonry – had caught up with him. At 30 years old, Casanova was arrested by the Venice Tribunal, “primarily,” the Tribunal said, for his “public outrages against the holy religion.” He was imprisoned in “The ...
A priest lived in the cell right above Casanova. The priest liked to read, and the jailers were okay if the two educated prisoners exchanged books. Casanova wrote a note, using mulberry juice for ink, and stuck it in the book’s spine. The two started writing back and forth. Casanova told the priest he planned to escape—and asked for his help. All h...
As much of a close call as his imprisonment was, Casanova didn’t take it as a sign that he should give up the game and retire to something a little more staid. Instead, he fled to Paris – and pretended to be an alchemist. Every patrician wanted a piece of Casanova. He told them that he was 300 years old, that he could create diamonds from scratch. ...
Giacomo Casanova was an ecclesiastic, writer, soldier, spy, and diplomatist, chiefly remembered as the prince of Italian adventurers and as the man who made the name Casanova synonymous with “libertine.”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 3, 2016 · - Giacomo Casanova. Say the name ‘Casanova’ and, generally, people will associate it with the idea of playboy, libertine, serial lover and seducer. In fact, his name has even turned into a phrase – to be a Casanova – to imply a man who is very good at seducing women.
He hobnobbed with Voltaire, Catherine the Great, Benjamin Franklin and probably Mozart; survived as a gambler, an astrologer and spy; translated The Iliad into his Venetian dialect; and wrote a...
The 18th Century Venetian’s name is synonymous with sexual adventure. But Casanova’s renowned writings reveal a more complex character, writes Hephzibah Anderson.
Aug 10, 2022 · By 1774, after 18 years of exile, Casanova won the right to return to Venice. Nine years later, he wrote a vicious satire of the Venetian nobility that had him expelled again. In his later years, Casanova became librarian to Count Joseph Karl von Waldstein in Bohemia.
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