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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).
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 ...
Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (Italian: Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano, lit. 'Childhood, Vocation, and First Experience of Giacomo Casanova, Venetian'), internationally released as Casanova: His Youthful Years, is a 1969 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. [1]
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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.
Casanova took Tiretta under his protection, offering him room and board; over the next few years, Tiretta would become his close friend and confidant. He shared Casanova's libertine lifestyle, seducing women for money; one of his many lovers nicknamed him "Count Six-Times" based on the number of times they had made love in one night. [4]
Childs wrote 14 books, five of them on the subject of Giacomo Casanova, the 18th-century Venetian adventurer and libertine. His authoritative biography of Casanova was published posthumously in 1988. His authoritative biography of Casanova was published posthumously in 1988.
The drawing clearly depicts further back the Calle della Commedia where Giacomo Casanova was born, and which was later renamed Calle Malipiero. During the 19th century the venerable Cà Grande of the Soranzos, Cappellos and Malipieros was neglected but kept intact in its seventeenth-century structure; and it was only at the beginning of the ...