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  Giacomo Casanova - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Casanova led an extraordinary life and memorialized his exploits in his autobiography "Histoire de Ma Vie", which is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century.
Casanova retired in 1785 and became the librarian to the Count of Waldstein in the Castle of Dux, Bohemia (now Duchcov, Czech Republic) where he died at age 73.
In modern times, Casanova is best known for his exploits as a lover, to the point that his name has entered the English language; to call someone a Casanova is to suggest that he is an ardent and probably promiscuous lover.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giacomo_Casanova   (1175 words)

  
 Richard Chamberlain in Casanova
Casanova's memoirs are an unreliable account of his adventures with 122 women - according to his own counts - but they also provide an intimate portrait of the manners and life in the 18th century.
Casanova's father died in 1733 but Zanetta turned down all her suitors and decided to support her children on her own.
Casanova was denounced as a magician and sentenced for five years in lead chambers under the roof of the Doge's Palace.
www.richardchamberlaintribute.com /casanovap1.html   (1178 words)

  
 Casanova   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
"Casanova Confined was commissioned by the Barossa Festival from Margaret Morgan (text) and Andrew Ford (score) as a vehicle for the prodigious dramatic and vocal talents of Lyndon Terracini.
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, self-styled Chevalier de Seingault, was born in Venice in 1725 into a family of actors.
Casanova was clearly a proud, arrogant man, but one able to admit his weaknesses with wry humility.
members.iinet.net.au /~mhm/casanova.htm   (1311 words)

  
 Casanova's Life
Casanova is arrested during the night of July 25-26, 1755, and imprisoned in the "Leads": the cells under the lead roof of the Ducal Palace.
Casanova returns to Rome, and continues on to Florence, Modena, Parma, and Turin, where he remains until May. At the instance of his friend, Count Gian Giacomo Marcello Gamba de la Perosa, Casanova is asked to represent Portugal at the Augsburg Congress.
Casanova's confederate in this swindle is Marianne Corticelli.
www.dickinson.edu /~emery/sketch.htm   (3752 words)

  
 Salon | Books: Casanova
Casanova was a man of many guises -- author, actor, priest, soldier, spy, banker, physician and translator.
Casanova's search for an identity of his own was a preoccupation, and admitting he was the son of a pair of actors never got him far.
Casanova experienced his first sexual encounter at age 11, when he was sent to a seminary to study for the priesthood.
www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1997/11/26review.html   (748 words)

  
 Giacomo Casanova fine free cooking and seducing women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Casanova, under various circumstances, travels from decadent Venice (where he was born in 1725) to trendy Paris, artistically rich and morally puritanical Vienna, and wealthy, plague-ridden Constantinople.
Certainly, Casanova shows a striking ability to reconstruct events and impressions from his "follies of youth." While the authenticity of some events included in his memoirs is questionable, one suspects that Casanova's accounts are largely true, and that any deviations that occur are for the sake of literary considerations.
In October 1787, sixty-two-year-old Giacomo Casanova, the notorious lover, and thirty-one-year-old Wolfgang Mozart, the immortal composer, are believed to have met in a Prague coffeehouse to discuss a revolutionary new opera based on the life of the infamous rake Don Juan.
ringfilm.prohosting.com /history/content/casanova.html   (1299 words)

  
 Will the real Ray Casanova please stand up?Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:05:32 PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Casanova, who is clean shaven, wears glasses and has a stocky build, said he was stunned when he finally saw the man who has been wreaking havoc on his life.
Casanova convinced a prison sergeant to investigate the identity of the imprisoned man who claimed he was Casanova.
Casanova said the sergeant got Hernandez to confess he was using Casanova's identity, as well as another, Andres Garcia.
www.gctelegram.com /news/2001/july/18/willtherealray.html   (1084 words)

  
 Loving a Lover: Is Casanova's Reputation as Reprobate a Bum Rap?
Judging from Casanova's own account of his early exploits, he was a beautiful boy, androgynous in appearance, with curly hair that young girls liked to run their fingers through.
Casanova broke through the floor of his cell and escaped with the aid of an accomplice.
Casanova's days in the castle, as described by Prince Charles de Ligne, the Duke's uncle, and quoted in the Childs biography, were not happy.
partners.nytimes.com /library/books/100197casanova.html   (1805 words)

  
 Casanova - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giacomo Casanova, a famous 18th century Italian adventurer.
Il Casanova de Federico Fellini also released as Fellini's Casanova, a 1976 feature film.
Casanova, a commune of the Haute-Corse département of France, on the island of Corsica.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casanova   (117 words)

  
 Casanova
This remarkable man was born in Venice in 1725, baptized Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, and introduced to posterity as Jacques Casanova, author of an astonishing autobiography in French, Histoire de ma vie.
Casanova told scandalous tales about himself with such candor and at such length that a complete and uncensored edition of his memoirs was not available until 1962.
Casanova was a prodigious writer who left a mountain of manuscript when he died in 1798.
www.springharborpress.com /casanova.htm   (960 words)

  
 SUB POP RECORDS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ugly Casanova) existed was in the summer of 1998, when he impressed himself upon the members of Modest Mouse while backstage at a Denver show.
Casanova began to share some rough songs with the trio and, after much prodding, with a few sparse crowds that milled about hours before the opening band was scheduled to appear.
While Casanova's talent was unmistakable, by the time he finished each impromptu performance, his face held a look of shame and anger that more often than not, foreshadowed a retreat into himself.
www.subpop.com /scripts/main/bands_page.php?id=383   (320 words)

  
 Welcome To Casanova's Informational Website Courtesy Of "Pennitentiary Records"
Though Casanova had considered other options for the outcome of his life, his older sibling (Carlos) who was career deep into music had started to share his ideals for the artform with his younger brother.
By now Casanova was somewhat developed enough to follow the footsteps laid down before him by his undying love for the blood left from such an obscene matter.
Casanova began taking music seriously after his older brother was murdered on the eve of Christmas 1999.
www.geocities.com /pennitentiary   (773 words)

  
 Giovanni Giacomo Casanova
Casanova was born in Venice, Italy, probably on April 5, 1725.
In 1745 Casanova was a violinist at the San Samuele Theater in Venice.
Further travels took Casanova to the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and southern France and to the cities of Rome, London, Berlin, Riga, St. Petersburg, and Warsaw.
www.occultopedia.com /c/casanova.htm   (914 words)

  
 Red Production Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
CASANOVA takes us from the decadent streets of 18th Century Venice to the salons of pre-Revolution Paris, and on to the London courts of George III, until a trip to Naples finally breaks Casanova's heart.
The untitled and penniless son of an actress, Casanova uses his extraordinary intellect, charm and cheek to gain entry into the high society of the Venetian Salons.
Casanova's last chance of a pardon is from a retired Venetian Procurator living in Naples.
www.redproductioncompany.com /cassanova   (652 words)

  
 PoundHounds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The ideal home for Casanova would be a home with kids 10 and older because of his strength and energy level.
Casanova is neutered, up-to-date on shots, on heartworm preventative, micro chipped, and crate trained.
Casanova has had professional obedience training and knows all the basic commands.
www.poundhounds.com /casanova.saddleback.htm   (157 words)

  
 Casanova - BPAL Madness!
From childhood aspirations of seclusion and priesthood came Giacomo Casanova, the self-styled Chevalier de Seingalt, the most notorious debauchee and playboy of all time.
Casanova is filled with my favorite notes, but I know from experience that they have to come together to my taste or else, it's off to the swap pile.
I did put Casanova up on the swap thread I have, and you will be happy to know that he was snapped up by another eager Forumite and I hope he found a happy home.
www.bpal.org /index.php?showtopic=12499   (3084 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Casanova (2005 television)
Casanova is a 2005 British television drama serial, written by the acclaimed television scriptwriter Russell T. Davies and directed by Sheree Folkson.
David Tennant as Giacomo Casanova in Casanova David Tennant (born April 18, 1971 in Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom) is a Scottish actor best known for several starring roles on British television.
Telling the story of the life of 18th Century Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova, based on his own twelve-volume memoirs, the one-hour episodes star Peter O'Toole as the older Casanova looking back on his life, and David Tennant as the younger version.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Casanova-(2005-television)   (681 words)

  
 Casanova   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But we must remember that children of that age were regarded as possible sexual partners by most eighteenth century European men - and indeed women - and that many of the Popes regarded incest as a venial sin, which they themselves often committed.
Casanova could have been a great writer or philosopher if sex had not been his main, almost his only, preoccupation.
CASANOVA is published in the UK USA and Australia by Sutton Publishing.
www.parkeriters.com /casanova.htm   (520 words)

  
 Casanova biography history pictures recipes Venice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Casanova was perhaps the most successful seducer in history; few women could resist him.
His method was simple: on meeting a woman, he would study her, go along with her moods, find out what was missing in her life, and provide it.
In each case Casanova adapted himself to the woman's ideals, brought her fantasy to life.
mithec.prohosting.com /history/content/casanova.html   (514 words)

  
 casanova
After all, this is the same "lisping rock star," as he calls himself, who wrote and sang nearly every song by the now legendary post-rock trio Modest Mouse.
He called himself Ugly Casanova, and was eventually booked to play a handful of sporadic club dates in and around Seattle.
The musician who took the stage, of course, was simply Brock in disguise, dressed as a southern gentleman or wearing a fake moustache.
www.geocities.com /eldridge1973/casanova.html   (646 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Casanova: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fast paced and edgy, Casanova alternates between the gripping love triangle involving the young Casanova, Henriette and her husband Grimani, and the swan song of the world's greatest lothario.
Casanova in his pomp is portrayed excellently by David Tennant as a witty charming chancer with the gift of the gab and a smile to make women melt.
Casanova is a sparkling, bawdy, comic, heartbreaking romp of a period drama that puts most of the bewigged and powdered TV offerings to shame.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00097HUKM   (1310 words)

  
 UNC Charlotte - J. Murrey Atkins Library - Casanova, Richard L. Papers
Also includes correspondence (1939-47) of his wife, Elizabeth Carson Casanova of Statesville, as a student at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, while working in Washington, D.C., and as a Red Cross employee in England during World War II, and during the early years of their marriage.
Richard Louis Casanova was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 4, 1918 to John Frederick and Martha Franklin Casanova.
The Casanovas then moved to Charlotte, where Richard served as director of Geo-Tech Archives, editor of Fossils Quarterly, and as a consultant to the Schiele Museum in Gastonia; Elizabeth taught in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools until her retirement in 1980.
library.uncc.edu /display?dept=special&format=open&page=951   (2636 words)

  
 Casanova - Just Adventure + Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
While he recuperates in the city of Venice, he discovers that plenty of women roam the streets, just waiting for him to charm their respective pants off of.
Even at the lowest detail level, the speed of the game made me feel sorry for my computer (and this is a machine to which I have intoned, "You worthless hunk of bovine fecal matter and silicone," "You hell-spawned machine," and, "I'd rather word process on Michael Jackson than on you!").
Casanova can kill both fierce Mongol pirates and random robbers with either a rapier or a crossbow.
www.justadventure.com /reviews/Casanova/Casanova.shtm   (668 words)

  
 Random House | Books | Casanova in Bolzano by Sándor Márai
In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escaped from the dreaded cells of Venice’s most infamous jail: it is at this moment that Sándor Márai begins his story.
Casanova lost the fight; Francesca became the duke’s wife; and the duke spared Casanova’s life on condition that he never set eyes on her again.
He could kill Casanova on the spot but instead makes him an irresistible offer, one that will ultimately be the downfall of the notorious lover.
www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0375413375   (377 words)

  
 Bangkok Street Dogs
I'm Casanova, a 3 year old brown dog of extremely mixed heritage, living on the streets of Bangkok and acting as a voice for Bangkok street dogs and a guide to their community.
Sandy, a 4 year old tan and white spotted mix of several different breeds, is an inspirational example of a former Bangkok stray dog who managed to find a way off the streets and into a better life.
Nowhere is the intense grind of a life spent scrounging out a living on the streets of Bangkok more apparent than on a stray dog's face, many of which bear scrapes and scars from past brawls and wrinkles from the tropical heat and sunlight.
bkkstreetdogs.blogspot.com   (9122 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt (Italian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt, Italian Literature, Biographies
In Paris, where he enjoyed favor in court circles, he became director of the lottery and amassed a fortune.
A man of learning and taste, with interests ranging from mathematics, poetry, and literary and musical criticism to commercial and political projects, Casanova left many writings.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Casanova.html   (330 words)

  
 Giovanni Giacomo Casanova --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The reader must be directly related to the work, placed in it—given enough information on who, what, when, or why—so that his attention is caught and held (or, on the other hand, he must be...
His libretto for Orfeo ed Euridice, partly based on the theories and practices of such literary men as D. Diderot, F.M. von Grimm, Rousseau, and Voltaire, was enthusiastically greeted by Gluck's friends, who immediately brought the two together.
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova was an Italian churchman, musician, soldier, spy, diplomat, and writer who was the center of many scandals, usually involving women.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9020600   (688 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Casanova
Long before Charlie Sheen, Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was the world's original bad boy; a debaucherous lothario who was banned from setting foot in a handful of European countries.
Casanova wasn't just a ladies' man, he was also a medical visionary.
Unfortunately for him, Casanova discovered the magical properties of lemons relatively late in life, long after he had suffered from a multitude of painful venereal diseases.
www.askmen.com /toys/special_feature_100/107_special_feature.html   (454 words)

  
 Casanova (2005/II) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This version of 'Casanova' is worlds apart from the one which ran on UK TV some twenty plus years ago.
David Tennant plays the young Casanova, swaggering his way from the Italian peasantry to the faux-aristocracy of France, and to England.
Peter O'Toole is the old Casanova ('an old librarian in a damp castle'), reduced to little more than a servant with his memories.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0427042   (357 words)

  
 Casanova film movie trailer review at The Z Review
Set pics from Venice of Lasse Hallström's Casanova movie can be found over at Coming Soon.
Jeremy Irons is to star in Lasse Hallstrom's Casanova along with Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller.
The movie is a comedy about Casanova and his pursuit of the one woman in Venice who doesn't fall prey to his charm.
www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/c/casanova.htm   (517 words)

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