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Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… shows his sociability in all its rich and messy reality, deployed in a continuous present yet rooted in the historicity of the multiple interconnected worlds that he frequented. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Mots-clés … 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 aristocracy, Giacomo Casanova had no status and no resources to enjoy its … laugh. He did it in Paris, at the home of the famous comedienne Silvia, by recounting his blunders as a newcomer to the city (I, 625) and on many other occasions. A long-time friend of his, the count de Clary described him as ‘aimable, vif, …
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Merchant communities in European ports [ Commerce / Mobility / Trade ]
… la plus cosmopolite au monde : Venetians and French invested in the West Indian Company. Florentines had banks in the city in the mid-century, and there were Tuscan shareholders in the East Indian Company. A company of Genoese merchants … du Buat) and in the months of July and August in Brest, on the 28 th of August at Paris. From which last mentioned city the said Nicholas Gottlied Lutcken, as it appears by his books of Correspondance, sett out the 3d of September, and …
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