| Giacomo Casanova  AKA Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
Born: 2-Apr-1725
Birthplace: Venice, Italy
Died: 4-Jun-1798
Location of death: Dux
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Duchcov Church, Duchcov, Czechia
Gender: Male
Religion: Christian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author, Paranormal Nationality: Italy
Executive summary: World-renowned paramour Italian adventurer, born at Venice in 1725. His father belonged to an ancient and even noble family, but alienated his friends by embracing the dramatic profession early in life. He made a runaway marriage with Zanetta Farusi, the beautiful daughter of a Venetian shoemaker; and Giovanni was their eldest child. When he was but a year old, his parents, taking a journey to London, left him in charge of his grandmother, who, perceiving his precocious and lively intellect, had him educated far above her means. At sixteen he passed his examination and entered the seminary of St. Cyprian in Venice, from which he was expelled a short time afterwards for some scandalous and immoral conduct, which would have cost him his liberty, had not his mother managed somehow to procure him a situation in the household of the Cardinal Acquaviva. He made but a short stay, however, in that prelate's establishment, all restraint being irksome to his wayward disposition, and took to travelling. Then began that existence of adventure and intrigue which only ended with his death. He visited Rome, Naples, Corfu and Constantinople. By turns journalist, preacher, abbé, diplomat, he was nothing very long, except homme à bonnes fortunes, which profession he cultivated until the end of his days. In 1755, having returned to Venice, he was denounced as a spy and imprisoned. On the 1st of November 1756 he succeeded in escaping, and made his way to Paris. Here he was made director of the state lotteries, gained much financial reputation and a considerable fortune, and frequented the society of the most notable French men and women of the day. In 1759 he set out again on his travels. He visited in turn the Netherlands, South Germany, Switzerland -- where he made the acquaintance of Voltaire -- Savoy, southern France, Florence -- whence he was expelled -- and Rome, where the pope gave him the order of the Golden Spur. In 1761 he returned to Paris, and for the next four or five years lived partly there, partly in England, South Germany and Italy. In 1764 he was in Berlin, where he refused the offer of a post made him by Frederick II. He then travelled by way of Riga and St. Petersburg to Warsaw, where he was favorably received by King Stanislaus Poniatowski. A scandal, followed by a duel, forced him to flee, and he returned by a devious route to Paris, only to find a lettre de cachet awaiting him, which drove him to seek refuge in Spain. Expelled from Madrid in 1769, he went by way of Aix -- where he met Cagliostro -- to Italy once more. From 1774, with which year his memoirs close, he was a police spy in the service of the Venetian inquisitors of state; but in 1782, in consequence of a satirical libel on one of his patrician patrons, he had once more to go into exile. In 1785 he was appointed by Count Waldstein, an old Paris acquaintance, his librarian at the château of Dux in Bohemia. Here he lived until his death, which probably occurred on the 4th of June 1798.
The main authority for Casanova's life is his Mémoires (12 vols., Leipzig, 1826-38), which were written at Dux. They are clever, well written and, above all, cynical, and interesting as a trustworthy picture of the morals and manners of the times. Among Casanova's other works may be mentioned Confutazione della storia del governo Veneto d'Amelot de la Houssaye (Amsterdam, 1769), an attempt to ingratiate himself with the Venetian government; and the Histoire of his escape from prison (Leipzig, 1788).
Father: Gaetano Giuseppe Casanova
Mother: Giovanna Maria Zanetta Farussi
Brother: Gaetano
Girlfriend: Bettina Gozzi
Girlfriend: Teresa Imer
Girlfriend: Nanetta
Girlfriend: Marta Savorgnan
Girlfriend: Donna Lucrezia (1744)
Girlfriend: Angiola Calori ("Bellino")
Girlfriend: Henriette (1749-50)
Girlfriend: Caterina Capretta
Girlfriend: Leonilda (1761)
Law School: University of Padua (1742)
Freemasonry Lyons (1750)
Expelled from School
Forgery (1759), convicted
Fraud Paris (1759), charges dropped
Unlawful Gambling Vienna, Austria (1767), convicted
Witchcraft convicted (1755)
Duel: Pistols Count Xavier Branicki, Warsaw, Poland (1766)
Escaped from Prison 31-Oct-1756
Exiled from Vienna (1767)
Debtor's Prison For-l'Évêque, Paris, France
Assassination Attempt Barcelona, Spain
Risk Factors: Gonorrhea, Smallpox, Gambling
Author of books:
Confutazione della storia del governo Veneto d'Amelot de la Houssaie (1769)
Lana Caprina (1772)
Istoria della turbulenza della Polonia (1774)
Histoire de ma fuite de prisons de la République de Venise (1788)
Isocameron (1788)
Solution du problème déliaque (1790)
Mémoires (1822-28)
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