Giacomo Casanova, often remembered as history's greatest lover, led an adventurous life filled with espionage, scientific pursuits, intellectual endeavors, and some truly wild travel stories. He left ...

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 ...

In “Casanova,” director Lasse Hallstrom turns his genial eye on one of history’s most famous seducers, Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, the legendary woman-chasing diplomat, soldier, spy and ...

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova, by Leo Damrosch. Yale University Press. 432 pages. $35. In Adepts in Self-Portraiture, a 1928 study of the autobiographies of Casanova, Stendhal, ...

Davies. Those looking for a faithful adaptation of the 12-volume memoir of Giacomo Casanova are advised to apply elsewhere. Of course, the story has been told and retold countless times ...

Giacomo Casanova was born 300 years ago in Venice, then the illicit pleasure capital of Europe, to two poor actors. The philanderer boasted about a selection of his sexcapades including threesomes ...

the Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova – there was much more to this iconic bad boy of the 18th century than most people know and much more about the so-called Age of Reason that might suggest ...

A bridge of sighs, indeed. “Casanova” is based at least in part on the adventures of mid-18th-century Italian Giacomo Casanova, who in addition to being a legendary lover of women was a great ...

For Ramirez, there were many places to find acting motivation. Giacomo Casanova, who lived from 1725 to 1798, was a lawyer, a writer, an adventurer, a gambler and a scoundrel who found himself on ...

Giacomo Casanova's name has come down to us as a synonym for a callous seducer. But Milwaukee Ballet's new production of "Casanova" humanizes the 18th century Venetian adventurer and memoirist ...

This month marks 300 years since the birth of Giacomo Casanova – and the beginning of a reputation so prolific that his name would go on to be defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as “a man who ...