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Casanova
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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


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The story says that famous adventurer Giacomo Casanova was the first one who took a nude swim in Koversada.
Andrea Zanzotto (Peasants Wake for Fellini's Casanova and Other Poems 57) While Federico Fellini was shooting his Casanova, inspired by the life and deeds of the notorious libertine, adventurer, and author Giacomo Casanova (Venice 1725-1798, Dux, now Duchcov, Czech Republic), he asked the poet Andrea Zanzotto (born in 1921 in Pieve di Soligo, a small town not far from Venice) to write some poems in Venetian dialect to be used in the film.
“On assignment for The Saturday Evening Post in the summer of 1964, I accepted one of Mae West’s invitations ‘to come up and see me sometime,’ and on the stage set that was her house in Malibu, I found her in what both Giacomo Casanova and Cecil B.
 
 
 
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