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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Now that I am but the shadow of the once brilliant Casanova, I love to chatter." "Now that age has whitened my hair and deadened the ardor of my senses, my imagination does not take such a high flight and I think differently."
Olivo, too, whom he had known in old days as a lean and eager student, was now a portly, countrified paterfamilias. The proposed visit did not offer sufficient attractions to induce Casanova to abandon a journey that was to bring him thirty or forty miles nearer to Venice. Olivo, however, was disinclined to take no for an answer.
He it was that instructed her so deeply in classic literature as well as modern languages, but always choosing such lewd works to carry out her education, such as Meursius and Suetonius in Latin, Athenaeus with his supper conversations in Greek, especially drawing her attention to his chapter on boy love, Boccaccio and Casti in Italian, the uncastrated editions, the adventures of Casanova, and the hundreds of other French bawdy books, with the most exciting illustrations of all these works and many others besides.
"We afterwards went to visit the cabinet of natural history. . . . The care-taker showed us a sort of packet bound in straw that he told us contained the skeleton of a dragon; a proof, added he, that the dragon is not a fabulous animal." Memoirs of Jacques Casanova, Paris, 1843. Vol. IV., pp. 404, 405 In the meantime the inhabitants of Alca practised the labours of peace.
The colour of Venice Sunny Gothic A magical edifice The evolution of a palace A fascinating balcony The carved capitals A responsible column The Porta della Carta The lions of Venice The Giants' Stairs Antonio Rizzo A closed arcade Casanova The bronze wells A wonderful courtyard Anonymous accusations A Venetian Valhalla.
At my "yes, I am Casanova," he told me to rise, to put on my clothes, to give him all the papers and manuscripts in my possession, and to follow him. "On whose authority do you order me to do this?" "By the authority of the Tribunal." Under The Leads The Earthquake What a strange and unexplained power certain words exercise upon the soul!
The stable, being on a hill, was a torch to attract the population from every direction. Rumor had it that Sunnyside was burning, and it was amazing how many people threw something over their night-clothes and flew to the conflagration. I take it Casanova has few fires, and Sunnyside was furnishing the people, in one way and another, the greatest excitement they had had for years.
This place of pleasure was made by God before he had created man. It may be remembered that Casanova quarrelled with Voltaire, because Voltaire had told him frankly that his translation of L'Ecossaise was a bad translation.
Casanova threw their bundles after him, and then placing a third stool on top of the other two, climbed on to it, and, being almost on a level with the opening, was able to get through as far as his waist, when Balbi took him in his arms and proceeded to drag him out.
But, however this may be, I was fortunate enough to find the set of letters which I was most anxious to find the letters from Henriette, whose loss every writer on Casanova has lamented.
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