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| | Giovanni Giacomo Casanova -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The reader must be directly related to the work, placed in itgiven enough information on who, what, when, or whyso 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. |
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