Few adventurers and fraudsters have left a significant mark on world history. Most of them have sunk into oblivion. However, Giacomo Casanova is the exception that proves the rule. His name has become a household name. This dodger became famous for his noisy love affairs and all kinds of scams, which more than once brought him to a prison cell.
Adventurer biography
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was born in the vicinity of the Italian city of Venice in the family of famous actors Gaetano Giuseppe and Janetta Farussi. Giacomo was the oldest child among many siblings. The father died early, when the boy was eight years old, and his mother disappeared all the time on the next tour. Raising children fell on the shoulders of the loving grandmother Marcia Baldisser.
The boy was a sickly child and often suffered from nosebleeds. Having bypassed all the doctors, Giacomo Casanova's grandmother led him to the famous witch, and although there was no cure, the child was delighted with magical rites. At the age of 9, Giacomo, at the insistence of doctors, was sent to a medical shelter. The conditions of detention in it were disgusting and the grown-up boy moved to live with a local priest, about whom he later remembered all his life.
Education and career
Developed beyond his years, Giacomo Casanova entered the University of Law at the age of twelve and by the age of 17 he had already become a certified specialist. However, he hated jurisprudence and soon Giacomo decides to become a minister of the church. Growing up, the young man becomes a very attractive young man.
His craving for the fair sex and promiscuous sexual relations lead to the fact that he is expelled from the Patriarchy with a scandal, and gambling and gambling debts drive Giacomo Casanova to prison. After leaving prison, he joins a military detachment, but after serving a little more than a year, he gives up this next adventurous venture.
Casanova Adventure
In 1746, after several unsuccessful attempts to find himself in life, fate brings the young man to a powerful Venetian senator. In gratitude for his salvation in an emergency and the help provided to Giacomo Casanova, the nobleman adopts Casanova and becomes his benefactor. Under the auspices of the senator, the Italian swindler lives to the fullest. However, after several high-profile scandals related to debauchery and immoral antics, Casanova is forced to flee Venice.
For four years he traveled to Italy, France, Germany and Austria, and returning to his homeland again took up the old debauchery in his personal life. In 1755, Giacomo was again imprisoned, but after serving a year he successfully escaped. Arriving in Paris, he becomes very popular due to his ability to fool people with tales of magic and the philosopher's stone.
So, having lived to the age of 60, Casanova changes cities and countries, and with them numerous mistresses. Falling from one adventure to another, he finds himself either at the pinnacle of fame or in imprisonment. Giacomo Casanova died all alone on June 4, 1798.
