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Manon Balletti (1740–1776) was the daughter of Italian actors performing in France and lover of the famous adventurer Giacomo Casanova. She was ten years old when she first met him; she happened to be the daughter of Silvia Balletti, an actress of the Comédie Italienne company and younger sister of Casanova's closest friend.
Venice in the 1730s. Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725 to actress Zanetta Farussi, wife of actor and dancer Gaetano Casanova.Giacomo was the first of six children, followed by Francesco Giuseppe (1727–1803), Giovanni Battista (1730–1795), Faustina Maddalena (1731–1736), Maria Maddalena Antonia Stella (1732–1800), and Gaetano Alvise (1734–1783).
Tiretta married a teenaged French girl named Angelique Carrion (1778–1796), the orphaned daughter of a French officer from Chandernagore, [12] at the age of 59. [13] She died at the age of 18 [4] giving birth to their daughter. [3] Their daughter's name is recorded variously as Angelique—like her mother [7] — and as Josephine. [12]
Histoire de ma vie (The Story of My Life) is both the memoir and autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, a famous 18th-century Italian adventurer. A previous, bowdlerized version was originally known in English as The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova (from the French Mémoires de Jacques Casanova) until the original version was published between 1960 and ...
Casanova (pictured) was one of the most notable eyewitnesses of Damiens's execution. The execution was witnessed by 18th-century adventurer Giacomo Casanova, who had coincidentally arrived the same day of the attack, and included an account in his memoirs: [20] We had the courage to watch the dreadful sight for four hours ...
Kathy Short, 56, and her daughter, Lauren Short, 30, were killed in the Circle C neighborhood in Southwest Austin the night of Dec. 5. Austin police believe Shane James Jr. is responsible for a ...
Weeks after a 17-year-old killed herself with a deputy's gun inside Industry Sheriff's Station, her family still wants answers.
Serial Killer’s Daughter Confronts Him Behind Bars Over Explosive Diary Entry That Suggests She Too Was Victim April Balascio as a child. "But it was hard having to upend everything," she shared.