Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova (died 1798) was born in Venice on 2 April 1725, the son of the actors Gaetano Casanova and Zanetta Farussi, and was brought up by his grandmother. He studied at Padua and received minor orders, before renouncing the ecclesiastical state. He was a violinist at the San Samuele theatre and secretary to Cardinal Acquaviva in Rome; arrested in Venice in 1755 and imprisoned in the Leads, he escaped. In Paris, he took part in the creation of a lottery, and was also an informer. Librarian to Count Waldstein at Dux castle, in Bohemia, he died there on 4 June 1798.

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