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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.
Tiretta married a teenaged French girl named Angelique Carrion (1778–1796), the orphaned daughter of a French officer from Chandernagore, [2] at the age of 59. [14] She died at the age of 18 [6] giving birth to their daughter. [5] Their daughter's name is recorded variously as Angelique—like her mother [9] — and as Josephine. [2]
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).
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 ...
At least 14 people have been killed in the crackdown, including a 14-year-old, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Now many Jenin locals say they fear the PA as much as they fear Israel ...
Sgt. Johanny Rosario, 25, didn’t get a chance to serve again; she was one of the 13 U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan last week outside of Kabul’s airport. Her family and community of ...
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 ...
Interior of the Teatro San Samuele, painted c. 1750. Born Maria Giovanna Farussi, her father, Girolamo, was a shoemaker.In 1724, at the age of seventeen, she married the actor, Gaetano Casanova, ten years her senior, who had just returned to Venice after several years with a touring theatrical troupe to take a position at the Teatro San Samuele.