Seduced by the greatest lover of all From: Mail on Sunday | Date: February 24, 2002| Author: ANDREW ROBERTS | Copyright 2002 Mail on Sunday. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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Even two centuries after his death as a 73-year-old librarian in a cold Czech castle, Giacomo Casanova still has the capacity to seduce us. As this well-written and intelligent study shows, the legendary lover was far more than just a sex addict who might today wind up in the Betty Ford Clinic.

Born in Venice and brought up to be an ecclesiastic, he was a highly educated man who di...

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