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Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… a royal lottery, gambling, and at times acting as a confidence man. A recent autobiographer introduces him as an ‘actor, lover, priest, and spy.’ 3 Born in 1725 to a couple of actors in Venice, a city which heavily privileged ranks and … an important facet of Casanova’s social relations, and haunted him throughout his life. 3 . Ian Kelly, Casanova. Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2011). Casanova’s encounters are not only striking for their … in London, he was sent air kisses from a balcony by a pretty woman. It was ‘La Binetti’, a dancer who had been his lover a long time ago and who happened to be touring England, and staying in his neighborhood. They were soon reunited …
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… the sociability of King’s Lynn as characterized by ‘inertia’, lambasting the mid-eighteenth century provinces for their ‘love of frippery, or feebleness of character among the females’, a feebleness, she argued, which was ‘bequeathed from …
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