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Casanova Giovanni Jacopo . 1725--98, Italian adventurer noted for his Mémoires, a vivid account of his sexual adventures and of contemporary society Casanova (1725–1798) loving (and likable) libertine. [Ital. Hist.: Espy, 130] See : Lust How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| If a commoner gave a noble even so much as a Damiens-scratch which didn't kill or even hurt, he got Damiens' dose for it just the same; they pulled him to rags and tatters with horses, and all the world came to see the show, and crack jokes, and have a good time; and some of the performances of the best people present were as tough, and as properly unprintable, as any that have been printed by the pleasant Casanova in his chapter about the dismember- ment of Louis XV. -- Baron Trenck, nor Casanova, nor Benvenuto Chel- leeny, nor Henri IV. If she had not been so decent her references would have seemed to carry one back to the queer rococo Venice of Casanova. |
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