Giacomo casanova

The 18th Century Venetian’s name is synonymous with sexual adventure. But Casanova’s renowned writings reveal a more complex character, writes Hephzibah Anderson.

He was a child prodigy who excelled in every genre to which he turned his hand, his music combining melodic beauty and the most daring formal perfection – all coloured by his remarkable gift for emotional ambiguity

Gawain’s reputation as a philanderer precedes him; the best known example is the comment of Bertilak’s wife in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, whose disbelief that the famous and courteous Gawain could be alone with her and not crave a kiss is notorious

By Umberto Brunelleschi

Casanova

The Venetian emblematic Giacomo Casanova met the women to whom he was courting in specific places: among these, the Serena Osteria Bistrot.

Giacomo Casanova is popularly known as “the world’s greatest lover.” His name is synonymous with being a master of seduction and an inveterate ladies' man. And yet, Casanova had “smallpox scars…

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