Giacomo Casanova

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Giacomo Casanova, portrayed by Francesco Casanova , around 1750–1755

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova [ˈdʒaːkomo dʒiˈrɔːlamo kazaˈnɔːva] (* April 2, 1725 in Venice , † June 4, 1798 at Dux Castle in the Kingdom of Bohemia ) was a Venetian writer and adventurer of the 18th century, known for the descriptions of numerous love affairs. To this day he is considered the epitome of the womanizer . The figure Casanova appeared in artistic works as early as the 19th century.

Life

family

His mother was the actress Giovanna Maria Farussi , known as "Zanetta" or "La Burinella", his alleged father the actor Gaetano Casanova . Giacomo was the oldest child of a total of six siblings ( Francesco (1727–1803), Giovanni Battista (1730–1795), Faustina Maddalena (1731–1736), Maria Maddalena Antonia Stella (1732–1800) and Gaetano Alvise (1734–1783) ). Since his mother traveled a lot, he was raised by his grandmother Marzia Farussi († 1743). When his father died he was eight years old. A year later he retired to Dr. Antonio Maria Gozzi given.

Giacomo is said to have been sick many times as a child, not just once in a life-threatening manner. He suffered from bleeding, especially from nosebleeds, which could not be stopped and which was combated with many, esoteric means. His particularly strong will to live is said to have arisen from these dangers. Later he called himself close to death so often at an early age, closer than life, that “later he hardly feared it”. The will not to give up was shown, among other things, in his spectacular escape from the lead chambers , a prison in the Doge's Palace in Venice.

Casanova as a cleric

At the age of 17, on November 28, 1742, at the University of Padua, Casanova obtained the degree of Doctor of Both Rights ( Doctor iuris utriusque , Dr. iur. Utr.), D. H. of secular and canon law . At the request of his grandmother, he decided to pursue an ecclesiastical career as a priest. As a prospective priest, after receiving the four minor ordinations , he fell from the pulpit on March 19, 1741 during his second sermon in San Samuele, pretending to be faint, and three years later gave up his church career. In 1742 he traveled as a secretary via Corfu to Constantinople , where he met Claude Alexandre de Bonneval . When he returned to Venice a year later, he was imprisoned for the first time (for inheritance disputes).

Order of the Golden Spur

He then traveled to Ancona and Rome, where he met Pope Benedict XIV . In gratitude for amusing chats, the Pope allowed him to read forbidden books and granted him a dispensation from the current requirement of fasting . However, because of his involvement in a love affair, he had to leave Rome. Casanova was never married, but had an unspecified number of children of his own, of which he was only partially aware. In December 1760 Pope Clement XIII appointed him . to the " Apostolic Protonotary extra urbem" and the " Knight of the Golden Spur ", from which Casanova's right to be called Cavaliere (knight) was derived.

While working as a private tutor in Naples, he invented a Marcantonio Casanova as his ancestor, who allegedly died in 1528 as the secretary of a cardinal in Rome. The forgery was soon discovered and he lost his job.

Escape from the lead chambers

Casanova's biography for the period between 1743 and 1745 is only partially known. Among other things, he traveled and came back to Venice in the spring of 1753, became a Venetian ensign , earned his living as an orchestral violinist at the Teatro San Samuele , where his parents were actors and for which Carlo Goldoni worked. Casanova wrote verses as part of the so-called “1. Venetian theater controversy ”in his favor and also acted as a claqueur .

Canaletto : St. Mark's Square , around 1743

In the early morning hours of July 26, 1755, he was arrested by the Venetian police chief ( Capitan Grande or Messer Grande ) Matteo Varutti for alleged "abuse of holy religion" , although the background is not clear. Casanova himself made various speculations about this, but Venetian archive documents do not provide any satisfactory information. There is evidence that the Venetian State Inquisition became aware of Casanova around 1753/54 . He wasted the money of his patrons, especially the influential Senator Matteo Giovanni Bragadin (1689–1767), had unauthorized dealings with foreigners and had joined the Freemasons in Lyon in 1750 . The files on Casanova's arrest are among the earliest documents mentioning the Freemasons in Venice.

Fifteen months after his arrest, he managed to escape from the lead chambers of Venice on a second attempt , which attracted general attention. For the time of the successful escape, he used the book L'Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto as an oracle ( stitch romance ). He wrote a book about his escape from the dungeon, which was published in French in Leipzig in 1788 and was translated into German while he was still alive.

Travel through Europe

In the following years Casanova traveled all over Europe - for example he visited the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, England, Spain and Russia - and was a welcome and prominent guest in the noble salons . In France he co-founded the National Lottery in 1757, together with Giovanni Antonio Calzabigi . In 1760 he visited Voltaire in Geneva. Since that year Casanova also called himself Chevalier de Seingalt , a name that he used again and again until the end of his life. In the same year he met Pope Clement XIII in Rome . , Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Anton Raphael Mengs , with whom he lived. During a stay in England, he fell in love with an 18-year-old named Marie Charpillon, but failed to achieve his goal, which almost drove him to suicide. Via Brussels , Aachen , Wesel , Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel he came to Sanssouci in the summer of 1764 and asked Frederick the Great for a job. However, he turned down the position offered to him as a teacher at the school for Pomeranian squires and traveled to Russia in the hope of getting a position at the Tsar's court.

Casanova lived in Saint Petersburg for nine months in 1765 and met Catherine the Great twice . The Tsarina saw no way of using Casanova; he traveled to Poland to seek employment at the royal court.

In Poland, he dueled Count Franciszek Ksawery Branicki in 1766 after the two got into an argument while trying to find a singer. Both were seriously wounded in the pistol duel. As a result, Casanova had to leave Poland and traveled to Paris via Vienna. Shortly afterwards, at the behest of the king, he had to turn his back on France and fled to Spain. He was briefly imprisoned in Madrid in 1768 for illegal possession of weapons, had an affair with the governor's lover in Barcelona and killed an assailant in one of the robbery's staged attacks, which is why he spent a month in prison.

Giacomo Casanova, painted by Alessandro Longhi (around 1774)

In 1769 he traveled via southern France to northern Italy and wrote the Confutazione della Storia del Governo veneto d'Amelot de la Hussaie (8 volumes, Lyon 1769, 2nd edition. 1786), a counterpart to the anti-Venetian history of Venice by Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye (1634–1706), who had been secretary to the French envoy in Venice from 1669–71. With this work Casanova wanted to make the Serenissima forgiving. From 1772, high-ranking advocates advocated a pardon (after the escape a ban was issued), which took place in 1774: On September 14, 1774 Casanova returned to Venice. From 1775 to 1778 he published three volumes of a translation of the Iliad into Italian, which received little attention, so that the final fourth volume remained unwritten. In 1779 a book by Casanova against Voltaire was published. In 1781 he compiled a list of banned books, each of which he commented on himself.

The memoirs break off with his return home. In the absence of other opportunities to earn money, he let himself be won over as an informer for the Venetian State Inquisition. He signed his spy reports with the code name Antonio Pratolini . The attempt to found a magazine failed, as did his work as a theater director. A low point was finally the pamphlet Né Amori, né Donne ( Neither Liaisons nor Women ), edited in 1782, against Venetian nobles ( Nobili ), in particular against Giovanni Carlo Grimani, with whom he was a frequent guest. Casanova claimed to be the son of Michele Grimani, while the latter was not the father of Giovanni Carlo Grimani at all. Casanova was again banished from Venice. In September 1782 he traveled to Trieste and in June 1783 only passed Venice while passing through without leaving the ship. After traveling through Paris, Dresden, Berlin and Prague, he came to Vienna in 1784, where he became secretary to the Venetian ambassador Sebastiano Foscarini and where he met Count Joseph Karl Emanuel von Waldstein.

Retirement home

Dux Castle
Johann Berka: Medallion portrait by Casanova, used as a frontispiece for the Icosaméron (1788)

In 1784 Casanova met Count Joseph Karl von Waldstein in Vienna, who made him an offer in 1785 to work as a librarian at Dux Castle . The last years of his life were marked by monotony and constant arguments with the other castle residents. The Prince de Ligne , an uncle of Count von Waldstein, described Casanova's life as follows:

“There was not a day when he did not complain about his coffee, his milk or the plate of macaroni that he asked for every day… The count had not been the first to wish him good morning. The soup had been served too hot on purpose. A servant had made him wait for a drink. He had not been introduced to a famous visitor ... The count had loaned a book without notifying him. A servant had not taken off his hat as he passed him ... He had shown his French verses and someone had laughed. He had gestured as he recited Italian verses and someone had laughed. On entering a room he had made the bow that the famous dance teacher Marcel had taught him sixty years ago, and someone had laughed. "

- Charles de Ligne : Fragment sur Casanova

It is believed that Casanova met Mozart and the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte in Prague in 1787 when they were preparing the world premiere of the opera Don Giovanni . Casanova was friends with Da Ponte, who came from Venice and, according to his statement, even contributed drafts of the text, which, however, were not used in the opera. The relevant text passages have survived. In 1791 he came to Vienna for the coronation of Emperor Leopold II, where he met Lorenzo Da Ponte for the last time in 1792. His last trips took him to Berlin and Thuringia in 1795, and to Dresden in 1796 and 1797.

Entry on Casanova's death on June 4, 1798 in the archives of Dux Castle

The only consolation for Casanova was writing: in 1787 he finished writing the Histoire de ma fuite (German: story of my flight ). His five-volume utopian novel Icosaméron ou Histoire d'Edouard et d'Elisabeth was published in Prague in 1788 . In 1790 he began to write his mémoires , based on capitulaires and letters. He worked on his memories an average of nine hours a day. After he had finished a first version in 1793, he devoted himself to revising the text until his death on June 4, 1798. He was buried in Dux. The place where his grave was in the Dux cemetery is no longer known.

Works

  • 1752 - Zoroastro , tragedia tradotta dal Francese, da rappresentarsi nel Regio Elettoral Teatro di Dresda, dalla compagnia de 'comici italiani in attuale servizio di Sua Maestà nel carnevale dell'anno MDCCLII . Dresden
  • 1753 - La Moluccheide, o sia i gemelli rivali . Dresden
  • 1769 - Confutazione della Storia del Governo Veneto d'Amelot de la Houssaie . Amsterdam & Lugano
  • 1772 - Lana caprina. Epistola di un licantropo . Bologna
  • 1774 - Istoria delle turbolenze della Polonia . Gorizia
  • 1775 - Dell'Iliade di Omero tradotta in ottava rima . Venezia
  • 1779 - Scrutinio del libro "Eloges de M. de Voltaire par différents auteurs" . Venice
  • 1780 - Opuscoli miscellanei - Il duello - Lettere della nobil donna Silvia Voucherno alla nobildonzella Laura Gussoni . Venice
  • 1781 - Le messager de Thalie . Venice
  • 1782 - Di aneddoti viniziani militari, ed amorosi del secolo decimoquarto sotto i dogadi di Giovanni Gradenigo, e di Giovanni Dolfin . A book in four parts. Venice
  • 1782 - Né amori né donne ovvero la Stalla ripulita . Venice
  • 1786 - Soliloque d'un penseur. Prague chez Jean Ferdinande noble de Shonfeld imprimeur et libraire
  • 1788 - Histoire de ma fuite des prisons de la République de Venise qu'on appelle les Plombs. Ecrite a Dux en Bohème l'année 1787 . Leipzig, with the noble von Schönfeld
  • 1788 - Icosameron ou histoire d'Edouard, et d'Elisabeth qui passèrent quatre vingts un ans chez les Mégamicres habitans aborigènes du Protocosme dans l'intérieur de notre, traduite de l'anglois par Jacques Casanécova de Seingalt Vénitothaire de Bibliothaire de Bibliothaire Monsieur le Comte de Waldstein seigneur de Dux Chambellan de SMIRA Prague, à l'imprimerie de l'école normal (German edition by Heinrich Conrad, 1922, gasl.org [PDF; 21 MB])
  • 1790 - Solution duprobleme deliaque démontrée par Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Bibliothécaire de Monsieur le Comte de Waldstein, seigneur de Dux en Bohème e c. Dresden, de l'imprimerie de CC Meinhold
  • 1790 - Corollaire a la duplication de l'hexaedre donné a Dux en Bohème, by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt . Dresden
  • 1790 - Demonstration of the geometry of the duplication du cube . Corollaire second. Dresden
  • 1797 - A Leonard Snetlage, Docteur en droit de l'Université de Gottingue , Jacques Casanova, docteur en droit de l'Université de Padoue
  • 1960–1961 - Histoire de ma vie . FA Brockhaus, Wiesbaden & Plon, Paris (first 1789, digitized of the first two chapters by Gallica )
    • German 1983–1988 The story of my life . Kiepenheuer, Leipzig (rev. And supplementary edition after Histoire de ma vie . Wiesbaden & Paris.)

Meaning of the memoir

The memoirs of Casanova titled story of my life belong to world literature and have been translated into more than twenty languages.

The work is particularly interesting from a cultural and historical point of view: The pan-European 18th century spreads before our eyes: Through his travels, during which he visited European courts and metropolises, he had contact with important people of his time. He knew the Popes Benedict XIV and Clement XIII. , spoke to Frederick the Great and Tsarina Catherine II. In addition to the rulers, he was also familiar with the intellectual elite of Europe: Da Ponte , Voltaire , Crébillon , von Haller , Winckelmann and Mengs were among his acquaintances. But the lower social class also appears in his memories.

Hermann Kesten described this “ pandemonium ” as follows: “The entire 18th century romps about in his memoirs and laughs, and argues, and hurts, in no other book is it so vivid, so clear, so close to smelling, feeling, and tasting. "

Edition history of the memoirs

The first page of Casanova's memoir manuscript

Casanova bequeathed the manuscript of the memoir to his nephew Carlo Angiolini, who offered it to the publisher F. A. Brockhaus in Leipzig in 1820 and sold it in 1821. Wilhelm von Schütz translated the French original into German on behalf of the publisher . The first volume was published in German as early as the end of 1821: From the memoirs of the Venetian Jacob Casanova de Seingalt, or his life, as he wrote it down at Dux in Bohemia. Edited from the original manuscript by Wilhelm Schütz . Because this volume was very popular, the publisher issued a twelve-volume, cleaned edition between 1822 and 1828.

Fear of being rejected by the censors or by a broad public with open eroticism, Schütz edited the original. In his dissertation, Gerd Forsch analyzed this processing and found that "disreputable sexual practices and dark points of biography - masturbation, homoeroticism and pederasty, abortions and venereal diseases" had been erased.

Soon after, a pirated print was published in France, a reverse translation of the German translation by Schütz into French, whereupon the Brockhaus publishing house commissioned the Dresden Romanist Jean Laforgue to publish the French original (1826–1838). Laforgue's adaptation penetrated the text even more deeply than that of Schütz: "The erotic passages, which were kept rather sober in the original, had a tendency to be voluptuous and thus met the desire of a predominantly male readership for stimulation of sexual fantasies."

This edition remained the only text base for over a century: The Brockhaus family shrank from publication because they feared being accused of immorality. Reprints and selected editions were created that were so tendentious that Casanova only appeared as a seducer. This contributed immensely to the success of these editions: According to the Casanova biographer James Rives Childs, there were 104 German and 91 French editions by 1956.

The original text of the memoirs was first published in 1960 by F. A. Brockhaus, Wiesbaden, and Plon, Paris. This twelve-volume edition was completed in 1962 (reprinted 1985 in 6 volumes) and re-edited by Günter and Barbara Albrecht (Leipzig 1992).

In February 2010 the French state acquired the manuscript. At over 7 million euros, it is the highest price ever achieved for a manuscript. This was followed by a new edition in three volumes from 2013 to 2015 under the direction of Gérard Lahouati and Marie-Françoise Luna, published by the publisher Éditions Gallimard in Paris.

Today there is no current edition of the German version of the memoir, so that the books are only available in second-hand bookshops.

Casanova in art and literature

literature

Casanova's life inspired a broad spectrum of more or less literary retellings.

Drama
Poetry

Visual arts

  • Jules Adolphe Chauvet: Casanova in pictures. Heyne, 1976, ISBN 3-453-42031-4 .
  • Julius Nisle: Gallery of the memoirs of the Venetian Jakob Casanova, by Seingalt. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Paris 1850. Reprinted as: Casanova-Galerie. 48 scenes from the memoirs of the Chevalier de Seingalt based on designs by Julius Nisle (= The bibliophile paperbacks , vol. 221). Harenberg, Dortmund 1988 (as well as for various book clubs, e.g. Bertelsmann, 1981; European Education Association, 1981).

music

Opera
  • Casanova by Albert Lortzing , text by Lortzing based on the Vaudeville Casanova au Fort Saint-André by Charles Voirin a . a .; First performed on December 31, 1841 in the Leipzig City Theater
  • Casanova e l'Albertolli by Richard Flury , text by Guido Calgari , premiered in 1938 at the Fiera Svizzera di Lugano
  • Casanova in Switzerland by Paul Burkhard , text by Richard Schweizer , premiered on February 20, 1943 in Zurich
  • Casanova by Daniel Schnyder , premiered on August 12, 2005 in Gstaad
  • The Giacomo Variations by Michael Sturminger (text and direction) and Martin Haselböck (musical concept based on WA Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte), premiered on January 5th, 2011 in Vienna at the Ronacher Theater
operetta
ballet
  • Casanova in London by Werner Egk , premiered on November 28, 1969 at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich
  • Giacomo Casanova by Stefano Gianetti , premiered on March 17, 2007 in the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern
musical
revue
concert
  • Casanova , concerto for violoncello and wind orchestra by Johan de Meij
  • Casanova - Giacomo is on fire! by Paulus Hochgatterer (text) and Matthias Bauer (music), world premiere in August 2008 at the Melk Summer Games

Movie and TV

Scientific studies and publications

  • Richard Alewyn : Casanova. In: New Rundschau. Berlin 1959, pp. 100-116.
  • FW Barthold: The historical personalities in Jacob Casanova's memoir. Contributions to the history of the eighteenth century. Two volumes. Berlin 1946.
  • Franz Blei : The Memoirs of Casanova. In: The Amethyst. Sheets for strange literature and art. Edited by Franz Blei. No. 8, July 1906, pp. 247-253.
  • Ders .: The two unpublished chapters from Casanova's memoir. In: The Amethyst. October / November 1906, pp. 327-342.
  • Ders .: Casanova. In: Pan August 20, 16, 1911, pp. 656-660.
  • Ders .: Giacomo Casanova. In: Franz Blei (ed.): The spirit of the Rococo. Munich 1923, pp. 142-147.
  • James Rives Childs: Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt. Represented with testimonials and photo documents. Reinbek 1960.
  • Gerd J. Forsch: Casanova and his readers. The reception of Casanova's “Histoire de ma vie” in Germany, France and Italy (= Bonn studies on comparative literary studies. Volume 1). Rheinbach-Merzbach 1988, ISBN 3-922584-51-9 .
  • Gustav Gugitz : Giacomo Casanova and his life novel. Historical studies on his memoirs. Vienna, Prague and Leipzig 1921.
  • Franz Walther Ilges : Casanova in Cologne. The adventurer's Cologne experiences based on new sources and documents. Cologne 1926.
  • Hermann Kesten : Giacomo Casanova. In: Ders .: The lust for life. Boccaccio. Aretino. Casanova. Munich 1968, DNB 457198494 , pp. 151-174.
  • Carina Lehnen: The praise of the seducer. About the mythization of the Casanova figure in German-language literature between 1899 and 1933. Igel Verlag, Paderborn 1995, ISBN 3-89621-007-6 .
  • Eugen Lennhoff, O. Posner, DA Binder: International Masonic Lexicon. 5th, revised. and exp. Edition. Herbig, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7766-2478-7 .
  • Paul Nettl : Da Ponte, Casanova and Bohemia. In: Old Prague Almanac. Prague 1926, pp. 139-148.
  • Ders .: Casanova and his time. On the culture and music history of the 18th century. Esslingen 1949.
  • von Notthaid: Sexual Issues and Venereal Diseases in Casanova's Memoirs. In: Dermatologische Wochenschrift. No. 46/47, November 15, 1913, pp. 1339-1351, 1366-1383.
  • Victor Ottmann: Jakob Casanova von Seingalt. His life and his works. Along with Casanova's tragic comedy “The Polemoscope”. Stuttgart 1900.
  • Charles Samaran: Jacques Casanova . Paris 1931.
  • Hartmut Scheible (Ed.): Myth Casanova. Texts from Heinrich Heine to Buñuel . Anthology. Reclam, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-379-20066-2 .
  • Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli (ed.): The other Casanova - unpublished documents from the Dux archive. Berlin 1930.
  • Werner Wolf Schrader: Life, work and impact of Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt in a cultural-sociological interpretation. Dissertation. Heidelberg 1956.
  • Karl Toth: Casanova de Seingalt. In: Germanisch-Romanische monthly V / 1913, pp. 989–997.

Biographies

  • Ansgar Bach: Casanova in Berlin and Potsdam. His affairs and the meeting with Friedrich. Kopfundwelt, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816632-2-8 (including on his encounters with Frederick the Great, the dancer Giovanna Denis, the lottery entrepreneur Calzibigi and with Countess Lichtenau).
  • Ders .: Giacomo Casanova in Dresden. His Dresden affairs and the family . Kopfundwelt, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-9816632-1-1 (including on the work of Casanova and his mother Zanetta at the Dresden Opera and the Italian Comedy).
  • Ders .: Casanova and Leipzig. His Leipzig affairs and the memoirs. Kopfundwelt, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816632-0-4 (including on the edition history of the Icosaméron and the memoirs).
  • Roland Kanz: The Casanova brothers . Artist and adventurer. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-422-07211-4 (with a comprehensive list of archival sources, a bibliography of Casanova's writings and a comprehensive bibliography on the four Casanova brothers).
  • Ian Kelly: Casanova: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy. London: Tarcher 2008.
Read by Benedict Cumberbatch . BBC-Audio 2008. ISBN 978-1-78529077-0

Popular science

  • Jörg-Uwe Albig : Casanova. In: Geo epoch. No. 28, 2007.
  • Felix Bartels : Laziness is punished by boredom. Casanova today. New Life, 2008, ISBN 978-3-355-01746-6 (Casanova's collection of quotations).
  • Ruth Bombosch: Casanova à la carte. A culinary biography. Campus, 1998, ISBN 3-593-36007-1 .
  • Bernhard Bröckerhoff: Casanova - a learned crook. Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Leo Friedländer: From Casanova's correspondence with women. Communicated for the first time by Gustav Gugitz. In the S. (Ed.): Frauenzimmer-Almanach for the year 1922. Vienna 1921, pp. 79–96.
  • Manfred Georg: The lively Casanova. For the 200th birthday on April 2nd. In: New Free Press. Vienna, March 27, 1923.
  • Roberto Gervasio: Giacomo Casanova. Seducer and man of the world. Munich 1977.
  • Ders .: Giacomo Casanova and his time. Munich 1978.
  • Hugo Glaser : The Casanova case. Vienna 1946.
  • Ludwig Hillenbrandt: A guest at Casanova. Amours and menus of the great seducer. Heyne, Munich 1966, DNB 456990305 .
  • Eckart Kleßmann: A feast for the senses. Casanova and his age. Düsseldorf and Zurich 1998.
  • Thilo Koch : Casanova - an attempt. Munich 1959.
  • Otto Krätz , Helga Merlin: Casanova, lover of science. Munich 1995.
  • Lothar Müller: Casanova's Venice. A travel book. Wagenbach, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8031-1170-6 .
  • J. Pollio: Bibliography anecdotique et critique des œuvres de Jacques Casanova . Paris 1926.
  • Felix Poppenberg: Casanova. In: Ders .: Pocket book for women. Leipzig 1913, pp. 119-138.
  • Alda Ravà, G. Gugitz (Ed.): Women's letters to Casanova. Munich and Leipzig 1912.
  • Ned Rival: Casanova - La vie à plaisir . Paris 1977.
  • Hartmut Scheible: The Casanova Myth. Texts from Heine to Bruel. Leipzig 2003.
  • Oscar AH Schmitz: Don Juan, Casanova and other erotic characters. One try. Munich and Leipzig 1913.

Web links

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Wiktionary: Casanova  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Casanova in Duden .
  2. ^ Casanova: My escape from the state prisons in Venice. 2nd Edition. Illgen, Gera / Leipzig 1799, p. 11.
  3. ↑ a b William Bolitho: Twelve Against Fate - The Story of Adventure. Müller and Kiepenheuer, Traunstein 1946, p. 78.
  4. ↑ Charles de Ligne: Oeuvres melées en prose et en vers. Vol. 15. Vienna 1807. Quoted from Childs: Casanova. 1960, p. 160 ff.
  5. ↑ Carina Lehnen: The praise of the seducer. 1995, p. 21 f.
  6. ^ Hermann Kesten : Giacomo Casanova. In: ders .: The lust for life. Boccaccio. Aretino. Casanova. New York 1968, p. 169.
  7. ↑ a b Carina Lehnen: The praise of the seducer. 1995, p. 23.
  8. ↑ Gerd J. Forsch: Casanova and his readers. The reception of Casanova's “Histoire de ma vie” in Germany, France and Italy. (= Bonn studies on comparative literary studies. Volume 1). Rheinbach-Merzbach 1988, p. 16., quoted from Lehnen: The praise of the seducer. 1995, p. 24.
  9. ↑ Carina Lehnen: The praise of the seducer. 1995, p. 24.
  10. ↑ Carina Lehnen: The praise of the seducer. 1995, p. 25.
  11. ↑ James Rives Childs: Casanoviana. An annotated world bibliography of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt and of works concerning him. Vienna 1956, p. 33, quoted in Lehnen: Das Praise des Verführers. 1995, p. 25.
  12. ↑ Casanova: Histoire de ma vie. Edition établie sous la direction de Gérard Lahouati et Marie-Françoise Lunda, avec la collaboration de Furio Luccichenti, Alexandre Stroev et Helmut Watzlawik. Gallimard, Paris 2013–2015.
personal data
SURNAME Casanova, Giacomo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casanova, Giacomo Girolamo (full name); Casanova de Seingalt, Jacques; Seingalt, Chevalier de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venetian adventurer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1798
Place of death Dux , Bohemia