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Updated: June 23, 2025
The duke, who had left me to the wits for a short time, returned and took me to the box of his mistress, who was accompanied by an old lady of respectable appearance. As he went in he said, "'Leonilda mia, ti presento il cavalier Don Giacomo Casanova, Veneziano, amico mio'." She received me kindly and modestly, and stopped listening to the music to talk to me.
It is no wonder that the one man wrote 'La Donna di Garbo' and the 'Cortese Veneziano, while the other was inditing essays on Tyranny and dramas of 'Antigone, 'Timoleon, and 'Brutus. The difference between the men is seen no less remarkably in regard to courage. Alfieri was a reckless rider, and astonished even English huntsmen by his desperate leaps.
It may very seriously be doubted whether the same mind could produce, with equal power, a comedy like the 'Cortese Veneziano' and a tragedy like Alfieri's 'Brutus. At any rate, returning to our old position, we find in these two men the very opposite conditions of dramatic genius.
The Jew's political sympathies are invariably patriotic, and he calls himself, not Ebreo, but Veneziano. The famous and beautiful Ca' Doro now belongs to a Jewish family; and an Israelite, the most distinguished physician in Venice, occupies the appartamento signorile in the palace of the famous Cardinal Bembo.
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