Stefan Zanović [ Travel / Art and Literature ]
… natural elegance facilitated his efforts to meet with the circles of the highly placed wealthy and well-known people in society. In the manner of other known adventurers of the Enlightenment 2 like Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Chevalier … adventurer who flattered her and knew how to spark her admiration. Just as he had been able to seduce polite European society by manipulating their desire for the forbidden, he easily seduced the duchess. They became romantically entangled … charming the British lady to manipulate her. Nevertheless, their love affair was one of the most scandalous in British society at the end of the eighteenth century . Zanović’s strategy of masquerading, his social skills, his ability to spot …
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