Stefan Zanović [ Travel / Art and Literature ]
… (1751-1786), a native of Budua (Venetian Albania), is most often remembered as an eighteenth-century impostor and adventurer who was at the centre of many a scandal. However, Zanović was also a prolific writer in several languages. … An elegant sociability was the inherent and distinctive trait of Stefan Zanović (1751-1786), 1 writer, poet, adventurer and renowned impostor, originally from Budua in Venetian Albania (today Montenegro), he spent his entire life … 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 d’Éon de Beaumont, or Count of St. …
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