Hello, yesterday I was watching the film Giacomo Casanova, played by Heath Ledger and I really loved it, I was fascinated by the character so I've decided to investigate more the story of his life. By the way I highly recomend the film, it is amazing XD.
Giacomo Casanova was a soldier, a musician, a spy, a writer an adventurer and the world's most famous lover! His autobiography, A History of My Life, written between 1790 and1792, tells the stories of his adventures with 122 women!
Casanova was born in Venice in 1725, and was very intelligent. He studied to be a priest, but he didn't become a priest because he loved wine and women too much! He believed in God all his life and said that eventually his prayers were allways answered. Casanova graduated from the University of Padua in 1742 and two years later he started work as secretary to a cardinal in Rome. Sadly he had to leave the city a few months later beacuse of a love scandal. The following year he travelled to Naples, Corfu and Constantinople, before he decided to return to Venice, his birthplace, and work as a violinist.
Casanova met the love of his life in 1749, a beautiful young Frenchwoman, Henrietta.
He said, "People who believe that a woman is not enough to make a man happy have never known 'Henrietta'." To his surprise Henrietta left him, and Casanova remembers this day in his autobiography as one of the saddest moments in his life."What is love?" he asked, and compared love to an incurable illness. After a while Casanova returned to his family.
Casanova was a gambler and 1757 he invented the lottery. Amazingly this made him a millionaire. He continued to travel and had adventures across Europe for the following 41 years, translating operas, writing plays and studying magic. Giacomo Casanova died in June 1798.
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