Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… State Historical Museum. Image Francesco Narici, ‘Giacomo Casanova’, Wikimedia Commons, 1760. Résumé Casanova’s sociability was the result of his personality, and his life, most of which – at least the part recounted – was spent as a … and at times acting as a confidence man. Even though it is difficult to draw some general conclusions about Casanova’s sociability, it is evident that he straddled several, more or less legitimate networks, demonstrating their interconnectedness in eighteenth-century culture. His memoir shows his sociability in all its rich and messy reality, deployed in a continuous present yet rooted in the historicity of the …
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