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The name ‘Casanova’ will most likely conjure up an image of an Italian adventurer, having numerous affairs with many women and getting into trouble with the law, not an image of a librarian in northern Bohemia. Yet this is in fact how the famous Venetian Giacomo Casanova ended up and lived out his final years.
To understand how the adventurer became the librarian, and to mark 300 years since Casanova’s birth on April 2nd 1725, Danny Bate spoke to Leo Damrosch, the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University Emeritus, and author of Adventurer, a 2022 biography of Casanova.
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Author: Danny Bate