This month marks 300 years since the birth of Giacomo Casanova – and the beginning of a reputation so prolific that his name would go on to be defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as “a man who ...

Giacomo Casanova is remembered today for his many illicit affairs. After all, the word "Casanova" still denotes a cad who ...

“Casanova” is based at least in part on the adventures of mid-18th-century Italian Giacomo Casanova, who in addition to being a legendary lover of women was a great thinker, traveler ...

‘Casanova’ deserves little love. By VAN NOVACK , JIM ERWIN and PEGGY J. ROGERS . Jan. 5, 2006 12 AM PT . Share. Share via Close extra sharing options. Facebook; X; Email; Copy Link URL Copied!

In “Casanova,” director Lasse Hallstrom turns his genial eye on one of history’s most famous seducers, Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, the legendary woman-chasing diplomat, soldier, spy and ...

Giacomo Casanova, who lived from 1725 to 1798, was a lawyer, a writer, an adventurer, a gambler and a scoundrel who found himself on the wrong side of the law.

Discussed in this essay: Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova, by Leo Damrosch. Yale University Press. 432 pages. $35. In Adepts in Self-Portraiture, a 1928 study of the autobiographies ...

Casanova’s dates are 1725-1798, a time the ancient regime was yielding to revolution and social change, and though his head was with the free-thinking philosophes — he adored Voltaire — his ...

Detailing the life of the legendary lover, “Casanova” will make its American debut in an Orlando Ballet production May 16-19 in Steinmetz Hall at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

Giacomo Casanova was born 300 years ago in Venice, then the illicit pleasure capital of Europe, to two poor actors. The philanderer boasted about a selection of his sexcapades including threesomes ...

This month marks 300 years since the birth of Giacomo Casanova – and the beginning of a reputation so prolific that his name would go on to be defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as “a man who ...