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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).
Paul John Knowles (April 25, 1946 – December 18, 1974), [1] also known as The Casanova Killer, was an American serial killer tied to the deaths of 18 people in 1974, although he claimed at least 35.
302M, also known as "The Casanova" (2000–2009), was a wolf in the Yellowstone Wolf Project. He was featured in the PBS documentary In the Valley of the Wolves and National Geographic 's documentary Rise of Black Wolf .
The last time Carroll saw her sister was the night before Halloween 1995. The two planned to have Carroll's grandchildren go trick-or-treating at Price's apartment. But Price did not answer her door on Halloween, and Rogers appeared to have left. Similar to his other suspected female victims, Price was in her 30s and had red hair.
Casanova allegedly wrote the first chapters of the book in 1789, during a profound illness. In 1794, Casanova met Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne. The two of them established a mutual friendship. The Prince expressed a desire to read Casanova's memoirs, and Casanova decided to polish the manuscript before sending it to the Prince.
Rafael Casanova i Comes (Catalan pronunciation: [rəˈfɛl ˌkazəˈnɔβə]; 1660 – 2 May 1743) was a Catalan jurist and supporter of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor as a claimant to the Crown of Spain during the War of the Spanish succession.
Emilia Casanova de Villaverde was born into an elite Creole slaveholding family in Cuba in 1832. [2] Despite her affluent Creole upbringing, de Villaverde did not share her father's conservative views. At a banquet during her youth, with Spanish authorities in attendance, she defiantly made a toast to Cuban freedom from Spanish colonial power.
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 ...