Casanova - the great lover
His is one of those names everyone knows, without necessarily knowing much about the actual person. We wouldn't know a great deal about him if he hadn't left twelve enormous volumes of memoirs, in which he detailed his many affairs - and alas not many people are now prepared to set aside the time to read though such a huge book. I've used it a great deal, of course, in this new biography - but I have also revealed a great about his mistresses (who they really were, for instance - he almost always used false names, to protect them from scandal). And I've done my best to set his travels in context - and he was one of the great travellers of his time, visiting most of the country of Europe. He was also a great adventurer - his escape from prison in Venice was one of the great adventure stories of the century, and made him much more famous in his time than his sexual escapades.
A new insight into the story of Giacomo Casanova. A true son of the renaissance, Casanova was a musician, a cleric, a spy and a lover. He led a tempestuous life where he amassed and lost fortunes, invented the National Lottery, fought duels with Counts, and had the most famous love life of all time. Casanova - the great lover. His is one of those names everyone knows, without necessarily knowing much about the actual person. We wouldn't know a great deal about him if he hadn't left twelve enormous volumes of memoirs, in which he detailed his many affairs - and alas not many people are now prepared to set aside the time to read though such a huge book. Casanova in love by Andrew Miller Editions Albin Michel 338 pages new for more information tel 02 38 98 19 27 or 06 70 18 35 47 Dom Tom shipping costs: contact me Don't forget to add me to your favorites list! In store, I have thousands books to offer.
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One of the difficulties of writing about him, in this age of political correctness, is that he was more or less kept by his mistresses - of several million pounds he made during his life, well over half came from presents from women. But they gave him money not because he tricked them, but because of the real affection they had for him, and the happiness he brought them - ‘you were put on earth to bring happiness to women', one said. He was himself very generous, and clearly had a very attractive personality - but it is also clear that he was a great lover, who knew perfectly the secret of how to please a woman in bed. He even astonished the great courtesans of the period by his skill in love-making.
Many people aren't aware that he loved men as well as women. He was by no means completely gay - but if no woman was available and a handsome man offered to go to bed with him, he was not going to turn the opportunity down. This may not shock us today - more difficult for us in 2002 is the fact that he frequently went to bed with children of 12 or 14, and that he had a child by his own daughter (though when she was a mature young woman who knew perfectly well what she was doing - and who he was). 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. He wrote plays, libretti for operas, philosophical books, he knew something about chemistry and more about the occult. He not only had charm, but intelligence - he talked on equal terms with Catherine the Great and Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin Frederick the Great. In short, he was one of the most fascinating men of his time, and if you enjoy reading about him as much as I enjoyed writing about him, none of us will have anything to complain about.
CASANOVA is published in the UK USA and Australia by Sutton Publishing. It can be ordered from any bookseller, or from Amazon.com - click on the button on our home page.
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A new insight into the story of Giacomo Casanova. A true son of the renaissance, Casanova was a musician, a cleric, a spy and a lover. He led a tempestuous life where he amassed and lost fortunes, invented the National Lottery, fought duels with Counts, and had the most famous love life of all time. Casanova - the great lover. His is one of those names everyone knows, without necessarily knowing much about the actual person. We wouldn't know a great deal about him if he hadn't left twelve enormous volumes of memoirs, in which he detailed his many affairs - and alas not many people are now prepared to set aside the time to read though such a huge book. Casanova in love by Andrew Miller Editions Albin Michel 338 pages new for more information tel 02 38 98 19 27 or 06 70 18 35 47 Dom Tom shipping costs: contact me Don't forget to add me to your favorites list! In store, I have thousands books to offer.
Matches where we're predicting BTTS. BTTS and Win Tips: Big odds BTTS and win selections. Bet of the Day (NAP) The best football bet to place today. Daily Double: Two best bets combined. Daily Treble: Three teams all to win today. Correct Score Tips: A correct score prediction for today. Anytime Goalscorer Tips: Players to score in today's games. Bestbet.tips provides all the news and betting tips that matters to the world sports betting fans. Including previews, match reports, previous meetings and other great stories to help with your sports betting. BTTS, meaning both teams to score, or sometimes referred to as 'goal goal', is a highly popular and relatively low stakes football bet where you're backing both teams to score at least one goal before the full-time whistle, or, alternatively, both teams not to score. Both terms are used interchangeably. All our BTTS win tips are 100% free, all the time. There's no hidden fees or subscriptions, just our expert predictions. Both Teams To Score accumulator. Four or more BTTS bets can be combined into a fourfold accumulator wager, offering much higher odds than individual selections.
One of the difficulties of writing about him, in this age of political correctness, is that he was more or less kept by his mistresses - of several million pounds he made during his life, well over half came from presents from women. But they gave him money not because he tricked them, but because of the real affection they had for him, and the happiness he brought them - ‘you were put on earth to bring happiness to women', one said. He was himself very generous, and clearly had a very attractive personality - but it is also clear that he was a great lover, who knew perfectly the secret of how to please a woman in bed. He even astonished the great courtesans of the period by his skill in love-making.
Many people aren't aware that he loved men as well as women. He was by no means completely gay - but if no woman was available and a handsome man offered to go to bed with him, he was not going to turn the opportunity down. This may not shock us today - more difficult for us in 2002 is the fact that he frequently went to bed with children of 12 or 14, and that he had a child by his own daughter (though when she was a mature young woman who knew perfectly well what she was doing - and who he was). 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. He wrote plays, libretti for operas, philosophical books, he knew something about chemistry and more about the occult. He not only had charm, but intelligence - he talked on equal terms with Catherine the Great and Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin Frederick the Great. In short, he was one of the most fascinating men of his time, and if you enjoy reading about him as much as I enjoyed writing about him, none of us will have anything to complain about.
CASANOVA is published in the UK USA and Australia by Sutton Publishing. It can be ordered from any bookseller, or from Amazon.com - click on the button on our home page.
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