CASANOVA. THE SEDUCTION OF EUROPE

In 18th-century Europe, while the old order reveled in the luxurious excesses of the Rococo style and the Enlightenment sowed the se eds of revolution, the shapeshifting libertine Giacomo Casanova seduced his way across the continent. Although notorious for the sco res of amorous conquests he recorded in his remarkably frank memoirs, Casanova was just as practiced at charming his way into the mo st elite social circles, through an inimitable mix of literary ambition, improvisational genius and outright fraud. In his travels a cross Eu...[Leer más]