Seducer, smooth talker, sex symbol: Giacomo Casanova has long been the embodiment of male charm and desire. The legendary Italian adventurer, born in 1725 in Venice to a family of actors, became ...

Casanova bequeathed it on his deathbed to his nephew, whose descendants sold it 22 years later to a German publisher, Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus of Leipzig. For nearly 140 years, the Brockhaus family ...

Nobody is more synonymous with sex than Casanova. With connotations of virility, lust, and sexual prowess, it’s a name many of us might forget actually refers to a real person, someone who has ...

A French government commission has anointed the memoir a “national treasure,” even though Casanova was born in Venice. “French was the language of intellectuals in the 18th century and he wanted as ...