… Image Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, ‘Portrait of Giacomo Casanova’, c.1750-1755, State Historical Museum. Image Francesco Narici, ‘Giacomo Casanova’, Wikimedia Commons, 1760. Résumé Casanova’s sociability was the result of his … the two men gave him counterfeited banknotes. He denounced them to the authorities and Castel-Bajac promptly fled to France, but Schwerin was jailed, and escaped the gallows only by begging Casanova to desist from his accusation, which …