Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… Europe, an adventurer seeking fortune. Casanova made his living by such varied means as organizing a royal lottery, gambling, and at times acting as a confidence man. Even though it is difficult to draw some general conclusions about … worlds that he frequented. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Mots-clés Aristocracy Diplomacy Finance Gambling Memoirs Networks Theatre In his novel Icosameron (1787), organized as a narrative deployed in twenty evenings in … Europe, an adventurer seeking fortune. Casanova made his living by such varied means as organizing a royal lottery, gambling, and at times acting as a confidence man. A recent autobiographer introduces him as an ‘actor, lover, priest, …
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