bottarelli

Updated: June 6, 2025

A woman and five children clothed in rags formed the foreground, and in the background was Bottarelli, in an old dressing-gown, writing at a table worthy of Philemon and Baucis. He rose as we came in, and the sight of him moved me to compassion. I said, "Do you know me, sir?" "No, sir, I do not." "I am Casanova, against whom you bore false witness; whom you tried to cast into Newgate."

Giacomo Casanova - Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 24: London to Berlin