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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
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05 Mar 2005 03:09:57 PM |
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OT: Giacomo Casanova |
Casanova: the lover seduced by his own romance
http://news.independent.co.uk/media/story.jsp?story=616989
The priapic legend he created for himself, dramatised in a new
television series, obscures the Italian libertine's talents as a
scientist and philosopher
By John Walsh
05 March 2005
Giacomo Casanova crammed several lives into his 74 years. His travels
and adventures, imprisonments and escapes, would furnish the plots of
several Ruritanian thrillers. Far from being the lounge-lizard and
boudoir seducer of legend, he made love to women in between doing a
dozen other things. He was a multi-tasker par excellence, a
self-inspired Renaissance man, a restless existentialist who tried on a
score of identities, from soldier and spy to gambler and utopian
thinker. At his death he left a total of 8,000 pages of manuscripts
(among them was an essay proposing reform of the Gregorian calendar).
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