The volume of the autobiography I have, includes a number of beautiful illustrations by the German (?) artist Fernand Schulz-Wetter. Here are some of my favourite ones:
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Casanova in pictures
The adventurer and womanizer Giacomo Casanova (1725 - 1789) is probably - along with Marco Polo - the most famous Venetian of all times. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (The Story of My Life) is above all an excellent source of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century.
The volume of the autobiography I have, includes a number of beautiful illustrations by the German (?) artist Fernand Schulz-Wetter. Here are some of my favourite ones:
The volume of the autobiography I have, includes a number of beautiful illustrations by the German (?) artist Fernand Schulz-Wetter. Here are some of my favourite ones:
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