Casanova de Seingalt, Giovanni Giacomo (1725–1798)
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An impression of Giovanni Casanova, the 18th-century Italian adventurer. He made and lost a fortune, was a friend of kings, philosophers, and famous authors, travelled Europe (Dresden, Prague, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Florence, Rome, Riga, St Petersburg, Warsaw), and is said to have died poor and alone.
Italian adventurer, spy, violinist, librarian, and, according to his Memoires (published 1826–38, although the complete text did not appear until 1960–61), one of the world's great lovers. From 1774 he was a spy in the Venetian police service. In 1782 a libel got him into trouble, and after more wanderings he was in 1785 appointed librarian to Count Waldstein at his castle of Dûx in Bohemia. It was here that Casanova wrote his Memoires.
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