What a complex guy he seems…. But the stories make me glad I was never a young woman in his circle. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Email Address:. Skip to content. Home About SeductiveVenice. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading About seductivevenice Teacher, writer, traveler, dancer, reader, photographer, gardener. Bookmark the permalink. November 1, at am. Our sexual liberty belongs to us. It should also not fall to feminists to reform abusers.
But it did alter the story so that Casanova abandons his womanizing after he marries — wait for it — a feminist writer. Apparently, our culture wants the womanizer archetype without the abusive patterns. But as we are beginning to collectively acknowledge, they are usually a package deal. But there is something wrong if he abuses his power to do it, or if he tricks, forces or manipulates them.
Too many men have behaved abusively toward me during my adulthood, have looked at me as a conquest, whether sexually or psychologically, or have passionately defended idols like Woody Allen. Too many women I know have stories similar to mine. You can tell a great deal about a culture through its language. They became footnotes in his story, their perspectives warped through the eyes of an abuser. Outside of court documents, we will never hear their real stories.
News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. To conceal her gender she would wear a fake penis and dress as a man. For all his philandering though, Casanova was by no means impervious to heartbreak.
His love affair with a French noblewoman known to us as Henriette lasted only three months but was to leave an indelible mark on his soul. By his own account, she was the perfect woman, an intelligent, beautiful aristocrat who was not looking for commitment just a haven from her own troubles.
When she departed to go back to her family, she left him almost bankrupt but forever in love. They continued a correspondence for many years, but they never met again. Bust of Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt age forty. Casanova was not the most handsome of men but in his younger years he carried himself with a charm and charisma that was almost irresistible.
Casanova was also well educated and possessed a great wit that made him a delightful companion; on his travels he notably made the acquaintance of Voltaire, Catherine the Great, Benjamin Franklin and Mozart. He also managed to escape one of the most heavily guarded prisons in Venice, being the first man to do so. Medallion portrait of Casanova, March For all his faults, Casanova is a fascinating character who has fed the public imagination for hundreds of years, spawning many books, films and scholarly papers.
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