GIACOMO GIROLAMO CASANOVA

Italian writer. The author of historical works, fiction novel "Ikosameron" (1788). In his memoirs, "The Story of My Life" (ie 1-12, written in 1791-1798, in French. Language published. 1822-1828) - described by many loving and adventurous Adventures of Casanova, given the characteristics of contemporaries and of public morals. Notable varied interests.

Casanova (Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de Sengalt - a title of nobility, which he currently vacant) from Venice. The son of actors was a miserable childhood. After studying law, young Giacomo wanted to take holy orders, but became entangled in love affairs and was expelled from the seminary. Having been in Naples, Rome, Constantinople, Paris, he returned to Venice, where for the deceit and blasphemy in 1755, was imprisoned. In 1756 he fled to Paris, where earned the special situation of magic. After long journeys across Europe arrived in Berlin, had an audience with Frederick the Great. He could take over as head of the Cadet Corps, but he chose to go to St. Petersburg, there to meet with Catherine II, and then traveled to Warsaw, from which escaped from a duel with Count Vranitsky. Then wandered through Europe, everywhere experienced many adventures. In 1782 he settled in the Czech Republic, in the castle of Count Wallenstein, with whom he was engaged in getting the secret, and alchemy.

"Don Juan list of" Casanova can hit the imagination just a very exemplary family man: 122 women over thirty-nine years. Not so much - three romantic adventures in a year. While the list of romantic luck was an essential attribute of a secular dandy, it was made with great care, learned by heart, a brilliant track record of providing new victories.

Love was one of the higher meanings of existence Casanova, she made him great. But his novels do not end with a wedding, rewarding virtue and vice dethronement. Natural sense of freedom and infinite in itself to justify it. "I loved women to madness, but always preferred them to freedom. "

Casanova willingly tied with the women a psychological game, amused, intrigued, confused, lures, surprised, glorifying (such as, say, his adventures with Mrs. F. in Corfu, KK in Venice, Mademoiselle de la Moore in Paris). "Coaxing a girl, I persuaded myself, the event followed the wise rules shalopaystva" - he wrote about the victory gained through improvisation. He flattered, sometimes molested until then, until reaching the desired. For the sake of beautiful eyes he moved from town to town, put on a livery, to wait on you like a lady. But most everything is much easier than with Mimi Kenson: "I became curious as to whether she will wake up or not, I myself undressed, lay down - and the rest is clear without words. "

He combined a sense of the sublime and carnal desire, sincere impulses and cash payments. Casanova bought the girls liked him (most of all he liked was young skinny brunette), he taught them love science, secular manners, and then, with great benefit for themselves inferior to others - financiers, princes, king. Should not be taken at face value the assurances of his unselfishness, that he only did what was happiness poor girls - it was a constant source of income for him. However, the society itself dictated to him the standards of conduct. Louis XV turned France into a huge harem of all the edges and even from other countries came beauty, the parents of daughters were brought to Versailles - suddenly the king will pay attention during the walk. A young O? Morphy came from the hands of Casanova in bed due to the King written with her portrait, to get noticed a monarch (a fabulous story about the love of the portrait was turned into a completely contemporary story about choosing the girl on the picture).

With some he was philosophical conversation, and one even gave a whole library. He slept with the aristocrat, with prostitutes, with the nuns, with the girls, with her niece, perhaps, with his daughter. But for all his life, it seems, no lover of anything he was not rebuked, for physical intimacy was not for him but for leisure.

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Once in Venice, Casanova picked up on the stairs, a letter which dropped Senator Bragodin. Honorable Senator Casanova offered to ride with him. Dear Bragodinu became ill, and Giacomo carefully brought him home. Senator sheltered his savior, seeing it as a messenger of mysterious forces, whose existence is deeply believed. Casanova lived in the house of his benefactor, and was at leisure to practice magic. The victims of his pranks have complained to the authorities, but it's surprisingly easy to abdication of responsibility. And yet, on charges of witchcraft Venetian police put him in a prison known for its horror "Piombo" under the lead roofs of the Doges' Palace in Venice.

However, Casanova is not in vain mastered the magic. It is hard to say what role was played by supernatural forces, but at midnight on October 31 Casanova came out of the casemates, locked for many locks. In impregnable Venetian prison, he knocked on the progress of a lead roof. Casanova's flight caused a stir in Europe and brought the adventurer known.

Therefore, Paris enthusiastically met a young rake, especially Parisian celebrity - Marquis d? Yufre that was crazy about his big black eyes and a Roman nose. Casanova, with his characteristic sense of humor persuaded the Marquis, that when she turns 63, her son is born, she dies, and then it will rise a young girl. Apparently, the Marquis was inclined to believe Giacomo, who in the meantime took possession of her millions and to escape from the Bastille, he hastened to Voltaire in Ferney.

State, he estimated in terms of the success of their ventures. England, he was dissatisfied: London fleeced his French Sharpilon, and her husband nearly killed Giacomo.

Whom is still a Casanova?

At different times, the famous adventurer gave his various certifications. He seemed a Catholic priest, a Muslim officer, diplomat. In London, he once said to the woman: "I am a libertine by profession, and you bought today a bad introduction. The main thing in my life were sensual pleasures: the more important things I did not know. "

"Love - a search" - Casanova wrote in his declining years. His quest was endless. On some women Giacomo recalled, not without shades of contempt, of others - with a sense of gratitude.

With special tenderness Casanova recalled warmly loved him - judging from her letters and after the death of Giacomo - Henriette, who, in parting with her lover in Geneva, inscribed diamond on the glass in a hotel room: "You will forget Henriette their . . . " After reading this inscription over thirteen years, Casanova found himself unworthy of her. When, many years later, after escaping from prison in Barcelona, ??took to his bed in Aix in southern France, his head was on duty caring nurse, sent to him who lived on his estate Henriette.

Casanova is not like a Don Juan. Commanders vindictive, jealous husbands and embittered fathers did not pursue it. Overjoyed women besieged by Giacomo letters and complaints. What is the secret of his charm?

Casanova was a handsome, attentive and generous. But, more importantly, he talked and talked, talked about everything: about love, medicine, politics, agriculture. He seemed to know everyone and everything, and always followed the principle that long before formulated F. La Rochefoucauld: an intelligent man can love like crazy, but not as a fool.

If the common language was not, he refused to love. He once offered to spend the night with a famous courtesan Kitty Fisher, who from an ordinary customer demanded thousand ducats per night. Casanova refused because he did not know English, but for him love without intercourse is not worth a penny.

Already in the middle of his life he felt satiety. Increasingly, lay in wait for his failures. In London, a young courtesan Sharpilon plagued him constantly pulling money and withholding affection, and the great seducer exhausted. "On that fateful day in early September 1763 I started to die and no longer live.

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I was thirty-eight years. " He was content with easy victories: public girls, tavern maid, burghers, a peasant woman whose virginity could be bought for a handful of sequins. And in the fifty years he walked from the savings to middle-aged women and unattractive, he lived as his wife with a humble seamstress. But the more irreversible was leaving his sexual energy, becoming more intense intellectual activity. He engaged in literary work. At the end of his life wrote a memoir, "The Story of My Life," which were met with mixed.

Each described the episode itself is very colorful, its authenticity is indisputable - Casanova seems sincere, and memoirs give the impression of the document.

Casanova, as is clear from his memoirs, sought sexual intercourse with a woman in the presence of another. So it was with Elena and Gedvigoy, two girls, whom he at once deprived of virginity.

"I have enjoyed with them a few hours, passing five or six times from one to another before they were spent. During breaks, seeing their submission, and lust, I forced them to make difficult poses for a book Arstino, which amused them beyond measure. We kissed each other in all the places they wanted. Gedviga was delighted, she liked to watch. "

It seems that Casanova has attributed the girl his own morbid interest to copulate.

The same was the case with Annette and Veronica. Veronica lost her younger sister and took the passive role that it has imposed. Away, she leaned her head on his hand, presenting my view chest, which could arouse the indifferent of men, and invited me to launch an attack on Anette. It was not difficult, because I'm all burned and ready to please her as long as it pleases. "Annette was short-sighted and in the midst of the action could not see what I am doing. I managed to free his right hand so that she did not notice, and I was able to give her a piece of pleasure, though not such a sharp, experienced by her sister. "In the meantime, the veil shot down, Veronica took the trouble to correct him and as if by chance offered me a new sight. From it did not escape, as encouraged by my charm, her eyes sparkled . Finally, burning with desire unassuaged, she showed me all the treasures that nature has endowed her, just at that moment when I'm done with Annette for the fourth time. She believed that I was rehearsing before nightfall, and her fantasy was played out. "

Once Casanova gave Oyster dinner with champagne for two nuns, and Armallieny Elimet. He is to heat a room so hot that the girls were forced to remove outer clothing. Then, having started a game during which one took the oyster another straight from his mouth, he managed to drop a piece of the corset, first one girl, then another. Followed by the extraction process, then it is examined and compared to touch their feet. It is interesting that all this happened during the carnival. Roughly the same thing happened during dinner at the Bussey (temporary assistant Casanova).

"When the dinner and wine significantly raised me up, I paid attention to her daughter Bassi, which allowed me to do whatever I wanted, and his father and mother just laughed. Stupid Harlequin nervous and irritable, because he could not do the same with his Dulcinea. K the end of dinner I was like Adam before the Fall. Harlequin stood up and grabbed his favorite hand, gathered to drag her into another room. I told him to stay, and he stared at me in amazement, but then he turned his back to us. His girlfriend, in contrast, are located so that I managed not to disappoint her.

The scene opened a spouse Bassi, and she encouraged her husband prove to her his love. He said, and skromnyaga Harlequin sat by the fire, his head covered hands. "

"Alsatiana was very excited and used a position of her lover to give me everything I wanted, so I was forced on her good work, and violent convulsions of the body confirmed that she enjoys no less than me. "

In the case of Bussy for Casanova, it was important that the Harlequin humiliated him and hurt.

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He did not accidentally marked as sweet to him a sense of power, as he likes to pay people with whom he had just played with.

Failures in love irritated him, and enraged. Sharpilon laughed at him, he scratched her, knocked down, broke his nose - because she rejected his attention. A case of "armchair Goudara - absolutely fantastic.

In appearance it was an ordinary chair and very ugly. However, it was worth a man to sit in it, as "two belt encircled his hands and squeezed them hard, the other two moved apart legs and spring raised her seat. "

When Goudar sat in the chair, the spring worked and resulted in a "position of women in labor. " Casanova mentally admired: this "apparatus" can be used to grab Sharpilon and outrage over it. Later he left the idea to buy a chair, but thought it belonged to his imagination .

Other adventurers led greed, they attracted fame. Casanova for money and fame are only a tool. The purpose of it was love. Women filled his life. In 1759, Casanova was in Holland. It is rich, respected, in front of him an easy way to calm and lasting prosperity. But only a meeting, meeting new stirred his imagination. He was looking for these meetings is everywhere: on the court ball in the street, in a hotel, a theater, in the den. He drove around the city without any calculation and plan. His path is defined a pair of beautiful eyes, lingering on it for longer than is allowed decency. And for a pair of beautiful eyes, he was able to change into a hotel servant to give feasts, play a "plaid" Voltaire and settle permanently in the tiny Swiss town. In the short time he managed to love the aristocrat of high society, daughters of the innkeeper, a nun from a provincial monastery, an academic girl, the mistress of theological disputes, maids in the Bernese baths, charming and serious Dubois, some ugly actress and, finally, even her hunchbacked friend . He seduced everyone. He had only one rule: two women are much easier to seduce together than apart.

"Love - this is just curiosity" - a phrase often found in the memoirs of Casanova. Tireless curiosity was this passion for this man. He was not banal darling of women, was not happy darling, accidental cheerleader. To get closer to women he regarded as a serious and studious artist refers to his art.

Casanova has not always been immersed in a hasty and indiscriminate debauchery. Such periods occurred from him only when he wanted to drown out memories that last only a great love and eternal thirst for the new one. Among the countless women referred to these "libertine profession, there are some who have left a deep mark on his soul. They are devoted to the best pages of his memoirs. Talking about them, Casanova avoided obscene details. Their images are for readers of the memoirs of the same family and live as the image of the Venetian adventurer.

Casanova's first love was in the spirit of peaceful Venetian novella. He was sixteen years old, and he loved Nanette and Marton, two nieces good Signora Orio. "This is a love that was my first, did not teach me anything in school life, as she was quite happy, and no calculations or concerns have not violated it. Often, we all three felt the need to draw our souls to the divine providence, to thank him for explicit patronage with which it removes from us every eventuality that might disrupt our peaceful joy . . . "

A slight tinge of elegy appeared in his second love. Perhaps it is because it takes place in Rome, the eternal green gardens Ludovisi and Aldobrandini. There Casanova loved Lucretia. "Oh, what sweet memories are connected to me with these places! . . " Look, look, - said to me, Lucretia - Did not I say to you that our good genius protect us. Oh, how she looks at us! She wants us to look calm. Look how little devil, is the most mysterious thing in nature. Fall in love with her, perhaps it is yours or my good genius. "I thought she was delusional. " What do you mean, I do not understand you, what should I look? "-" Can not you see a beautiful snake with a brilliant skin, which lifted her head and just worship us? "I looked to where she was pointing and saw a snake iridescent colors, the length of a cubit, which indeed we were treated.

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On the way from Rome to Ancona, Casanova met with singer Teresa, dressed as eunuchs. In this strange girl, were noble and clear mind, inspires respect. Casanova would never part with it. He never thought so seriously about marriage, as that night in a small hotel in Sinigali. Unexpected separation did not change his decision. It took the whole life experience of Teresa, to convince him this is not possible for them both. "It was the first time in my life that I had to think twice before deciding on anything. " They parted, and met seventeen years later in Florence. Together with Teresa was a young man, Cesarino like two peas in a pod-like Casanova in his youth. Amazed at this meeting by Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote the play "An adventurer and a singer. "

During his stay in Corfu Casanova experienced love, reminiscent of its complexity and painful themes of contemporary novels. The long history of this dramatic love. Many years later the memory of the patrician FF Casanova led to exclaim: "What is love?" This kind of madness over which the mind has no power. It is a disease which a person is subject at any age and is curable when it strikes the old man. O love, being and feeling of indefinable "God of nature, Your bitterness is sweet, your bitterness is cruel . . . "

No other woman is not aroused in the soul of Casanova's such tender memories, as Henriette, the mysterious Henriette, whom he met in the Hungarian society officer in Cesena. Three months he lived with her in Parma, was the happiest time in his life. "Who thinks that a woman can not fill all the hours and moments of the day, he thinks so because he did not know never Henriette . . . We loved each other with all the force at which there were only capable of, we are completely satisfied with each other, we all lived in our love. " Casanova adored this woman whose face "was a shadow of some sadness. " He admired it all - her intelligence, her education, her dress sense. Once she played the cello beautifully. Casanova was moved, shocked by this new talent to his Henriette. "I ran into the garden and there was crying, because nobody could see me. But who is this incomparable Henriette, I repeated with a tender soul, from this treasure, which I now possess? . . "

The case, which led Casanova and Henriette remember the days of his youth, came to him just after separation from Dubois, who was one of his last big attachments. After this incident he began to feel lonely. Rosalia he picked up in one of Marseilles brothel. "I tried to bind this young lady, hoping she will stay with me until the end of days and that, living with her consent, I do not feel more need to wander from one love to another. " But, of course, and Rosalie left him, and his wanderings began again.

Instead of a dedicated lover Casanova met La Kortichelli. This little dancer forced him to experience jealousy and bitterness of deception. She was from Bologna and just did nothing but laugh. " It caused a lot of Casanova ills of every kind. She is intrigued against him and betrayed him at every opportunity. But the tone of his stories, issues that never, not even a minute of their final break, the "Madcap" was not indifferent to the heart begins to grow old adventurer.

Latest novel, Casanova was in Milan. He was then still great. "My luxury was dazzling. My rings, my snuff-box, my watch and chain, sprinkled with diamonds, my Order's cross of diamonds and rubies, which I wore around his neck on a broad crimson ribbon - all this gave me a great view. " Near Milan Casanova met Clementine, "worthy of deep respect and purest love. " Remembering the days spent with her, he says: "I loved, loved me and was healthy, and I had the money I spent for fun, I was happy. I loved to repeat itself this and laughed at the stupid moralists, who insist what on earth is not real happiness. And these words, "on the ground, excited my mirth, as if it could be somewhere else! . . Yes, dark and short-sighted moralists on earth is happiness, much happiness, and each has it own.

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It's not forever, there it goes, comes and goes again . . . and, perhaps, the amount of suffering as a consequence of our mental and physical weakness, greater than the sum of happiness for all of us. Maybe so but this does not mean that there is no happiness, much happiness. If luck was not on the earth, creation would be abhorrent and would be right Voltaire, who called the planet storehouse of the universe - a bad pun, which is absurd or not is nothing but the tide Writers bile. There is happiness, there is a lot of happiness, as I say even now, when I know it only by memories. "

On parting Clementine sobbed and fainted. Casanova felt it then, that parting with her, he says goodbye to his last happiness. Venetian Marcolini it took almost casually from the street. Parting with it aroused in him an unprecedented experience. "I can not and refuses to hand the suffering that has caused me to her departure. Even before I was happy to be apart for many reasons. In a moment of departure, I felt that my desire to get rid of Marcolini weakens. But when I'm alone - some empty, some despair! . . superficial reader probably will not believe when I say that remained standing motionless, overcome by sorrow and in that oblivion of all that he did not know how to find your way. I jumped on his horse and spurs it to the utmost, gave himself up to the road with a desperate decision to drive a horse or breaking his neck. So I did eighteen leagues in five hours. "

And then London. "What loneliness, abandonment . . . what London - this is the last place on earth where you can live when unhappy at heart. " There's no Casanova met his girlfriend-boyfriend, but a dangerous predator. Frenchwoman of Besancon, which bore the name Sharpilon was destined to become the worst enemy of Casanova. "So, in London, the earthly life passed before the half, as he said the old Dante's love the most brazen laugh at me. "

What is unusual and wild, this was love! Casanova fell in love with this woman at first sight. It consisted of a cunning, caprice, cold calculation and frivolity, mixed the most amazing way. It devastated him to the skin and brought to jail. Once she nearly strangled him, other times Casanova succumbed to severe beatings. In Richmond, in the park, he rushed at her with a dagger. They were then friends, then enemies. But here's the last humiliation: Casanova found her on a date with a young hairdresser. In a perfect frenzy, it crushes everything that came under his arm. Sharpilon barely managed to escape. Then she was sick. Casanova said that she was dying. "Then I was gripped by a terrible desire to commit suicide. I came to myself and made a will in favor of Bragadina. Then I took the gun and went to the Thames with a determination to crush his skull on the parapet of the bridge. " Meeting with some Edgar saved his life. As always, obeying destiny, Casanova went after him, and this night ended in an orgy. The next day he met at a ball Sharpilon among the dancers. "His hair began to stir in my head and I felt a terrible pain in my legs. Edgar told me afterwards that the sight of my pale, he thought that I now fall into epileptic fit. In an instant I pushed the audience and went straight to her. I she was saying something that - I do not remember. She ran away in fear. " This was the last meeting with Casanova Sharpilon . . .

After the death of Casanova became a hero to many literary works, and then the movies. The great Italian director Federico Fellini showed in his film (1976), a gifted man who tries in vain to use their talents, but in this environment, demand only the sexual energy . . .

From a real person famous adventurer and lover turned into a myth.