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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, [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]
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 ...
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.
Gaetano Casanova (2 April 1697, Parma – 18 December 1733, Venice) was an Italian actor and ballet dancer. His eldest son was the famous adventurer, Giacomo Casanova . Biography
Karl von Sievers (1710–74) owed his rise to a brief liaison with Tsarina Elisabeth.He was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1760.; His daughter Elisabeth (1746-1818) captivated Giacomo Casanova but married her cousin Jacob Sievers who administered the north-west of modern-day Russia and built the Sievers Canal connecting the Msta and Volkhov rivers.
Anne Couppier de Romans was the daughter of an office clerk in Grenoble, Jean Joseph Roman Coppier, and Marie-Madeleine Armand. In 1760, she became acquainted with Giacomo Casanova, who made her a horoscope claiming that she would be the lover of the king.