Giacomo (Jacques) Girolamo Casanova, cavalier de Seingalt [pronunciation: Dżakomo Dżirolamo Kazanów or Kasanowa, cavalier de Segal] (born April 2, 1725 in Venice, died. June 4, 1798 in Duchcovie) was born in Venice in the family of actor Gaetano Giuseppe Casanova and Zanetty Farussi the eldest of six children.
father died when Giacomo was eight years old, and his mother is usually performed abroad, so his grandmother took care of him. He was a sickly child, considered to be mentally retarded. The awakening of his intellectual capacity was not until the age of eight, when the witch of the island of Murano has cured him with nose bleeds. In nine years old he was sent to the school doctor Gozzi in Padua. For Bettina, Doctor Gozzi's daughter, survived the age of 12 his first (unfulfilled) love adventure.
From 1738-1742 he studied at the University of Padua, where, he said, at age 16 received a doctorate in both laws for theses about wills and Do Hebrews can build a new synagogue (the normal age, then a PhD is not much of contemporary common). Then he entered the seminary in Padua, but in less than two weeks, was expelled for being in his bed two times by chance found themselves other seminarians. The intercession of the mother was secretary to the Bishop of Martirano city in Calabria, but discouraged by the widespread poverty and lack of civilization, which he found there, he abandoned the Calabria only sixty hours of stay and went to Rome.
In 1744 he became secretary to Cardinal Acquavivy, Spain's ambassador to the Holy See. This job had to leave when he was innocently implicated in the kidnapping of his daughter's French teacher. Then enlisted in the army as an ensign Venetian and went on to Constantinople and Corfu.
After returning to his hometown in 1745 earned life playing the violin at the San Samuele theater. After one of the performances, saved the life of Matteo Bragadinowi senator, who suffered a heart attack. Senator, delighted with his knowledge of Kabbalah, he began to treat him like a son, which allowed the Casanova of exciting life. In 1749, when because of a joke with the use of hand the deceased had been accused of desecrating the grave, decided to temporarily remove from Venice.
was an adventurer, a traveler and writer. His diaries - Story of my life - vividly describe life in eighteenth-century European capitals. Numerous descriptions of conquest Casanova love owes the fact that his name became synonymous in many languages \u200b\u200bseducer.
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