Ĭonditions at the boarding house were appalling, so he appealed to be placed under the care of Abbé Gozzi, his primary instructor, who tutored him in academic subjects, as well as the violin. For Casanova, the neglect by his parents was a bitter memory.
Perhaps to remedy the nosebleeds (a physician blamed the density of Venice's air), Casanova, on his ninth birthday, was sent to a boarding house on the mainland in Padua. As a child, Casanova suffered nosebleeds, and his grandmother sought help from a witch: "Leaving the gondola, we enter a hovel, where we find an old woman sitting on a pallet, with a black cat in her arms and five or six others around her." Though the unguent applied was ineffective, Casanova was fascinated by the incantation. His grandmother Marzia Baldissera cared for him while his mother toured about Europe in the theater. San Samuele – Casanova's childhood neighborhood. He spent his last years in the Dux Chateau ( Bohemia) as a librarian in Count Waldstein's household, where he also wrote the story of his life. He claims to have mingled with European royalty, popes, and cardinals, along with the artistic figures Voltaire, Goethe, and Mozart. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". He often signed his works as "Jacques Casanova de Seingalt" after he began writing in French following his second exile from Venice.
Ĭasanova, depending on circumstances, used more or less fictitious names, such as baron or count of Farussi (the maiden name of his mother) or Chevalier de Seingalt ( French pronunciation: ). His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie ( Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic and provocative sources of information about the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. Giacomo Girolamo Casanova ( / ˌ k æ s ə ˈ n oʊ v ə, ˌ k æ z ə-/, Italian: 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.
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