Casanova's Women (54 page)

14
Prince de Ligne,
Pensées
, p.91

15
Casanova
, music by Goran Vejvoda, choreography and costumes by Angelin Preljocaj, 1998

16
Dominick Argento,
Casanova's Homecoming
, 1984; and Daniel Schnyder,
Casanova

17
Casanova
by Johan de Meij, 1999

 

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Intermédiare des Casanovistes
, No. XV, 1998

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, translated by Mary Fitton, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1968

ANDRIEUX, Maurice,
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Casanova, The Man Who Really Loved Women
, translated by Catherine Temerson, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1997

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Giacomo Casanova
Pastel portrait by Francesco Casanova (1727-1802) Dashcov Collection, State Historical Museum, Moscow

 

p.23
Zanetta Casanova
Silhouette of the actress found amongst Casanova's possessions at Dux

Venice: The Doge's Palace and the Molofrom the Basin of San Marco
Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) Oil on canvas. 58.1 x 76.4cm. Photo © National Gallery, London

 

The Parlour of the Nuns at San Zaccharia
Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) Oil on canvas. 108 x208cm. Ca'Rezzonico Museum, Venice. Photo © Ca'Rezzonico Museum, Venice

 

Teresa Lanti
Anonymous, 18th century Bolognese School. The Scala Theatre Museum, Milan

 

Manon Balletti
Jean-Marc Nattier, 1757. Oil on Canvas. 54 x 47.5cm. Photo © National Gallery, London

 

Thalia, Muse of Comedy
Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766) Oil on Canvas. 53½ x49in. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Mildred Anna Williams Collection, 1954.59

 

Adéläide de Gueidan and her Sister Polyxène at the Harpsichord
18th century French School. Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence. Photo © Musée Granet, by kind permission of Bernard Terlay

 

Teresa Cornelys
Permission British Library. Shelfmark 1889b.10/1-8

 

Mrs Sophia Williams
Anonymous, oil on canvas. The Princess Helena College, Hertfordshire. Photo © Martin L. Thompson

 

View of Dux Castle
Anonymous, 19th century. Photo © and permission Duchcov Castle, Duchcov, Czech Republic

 

By his own estimation Giacomo Casanova made love to several hundred women during his lifetime, of which around one hundred and fifty are separately mentioned in his twelve-volume memoir. Any book about the women in his life must therefore either be extremely long or extremely selective. I have taken the latter option and made a very personal choice, which is to write about the women whom I consider were the most important to him or the most interesting. Since Casanova discreetly disguised the names of many of his lovers, their real identities are often a matter of conjecture. In some cases the proof seems overwhelming, but in other cases the jury is still out. I have chosen to go with the person I consider to be the most likely candidate; others may of course disagree with me.

It would not have been possible to write this book without the Robert Laffont/Bouquins edition of Casanova's twelve-volume autobiography,
Histoire de ma Vie
. Brilliantly edited by Francis Lacassin, it contains almost everything anyone interested in Casanova wants to know, including the integral text of the memoirs. It is this Bouquins three-volume paperback edition that I have referenced in my footnotes, referring to each quotation by the Bouquins volume number, followed by the page number.

Past and present Casanova scholars have trawled scrupulously through the archives of Europe before me in order to pin down the adventurer and his women, and I am deeply indebted to their research. I would particularly like to thank Helmut Watzlawick; Jean Louis André for his articles on Henriette; Furio Luccichenti;
Pablo Günther; and most of all Marco Leeflang, for his help and encouragement throughout this project.

Thanks to my agent Clare Alexander; and to Rosemary Davidson, Mary Instone and Erica Jarnes at Bloomsbury Publishing in London, and Kathy Belden at Bloomsbury, New York; Dr Jiri Wolf of the Casanova Study Room at the Museum Duchcov; Matteo Sartorio of the Museo Teatrale alia Scala, Milan; Filippo de Vivo, for his advice on eighteenth-century Venice; André Maire of the Archives Municipales de Lyon; Bernard Terlay of the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence; Ann-Marie Hodgkiss and Heather Baim of the Princess Helena College, Hertfordshire; Donald Clarke; Gabriella Massaglia; the Biblioteca Spadoni at La Pergola Theatre in Florence; Enrico Tellini of the Teatro San Carlo in Milan; Roy Harrison of the City of Westminster Archives; Martin L.Thompson, for his photograph of Sophia Williams; and Martina Vaclavkova, the most delightful Czech translator one could wish for.

Without the kindness and wonderful hospitality of my friend Eva Kolokova I would probably still be lost somewhere on the road between Prague and Duchcov. Without Donald Sassoon to help me with the most tricky translations, my nose would still be buried in French and Italian dictionaries. And without my sister Sue Summers' encouragement I might still be floundering in mid-book despair.

I owe a great debt of thanks to my brother-in-law, Philip Norman, for all the time and effort he very generously put in to helping me edit this book. His advice was invaluable, as it always is. And last but by no means least, thanks to my son Joshua for putting up with my erratic moods and preoccupations with such good grace, and for reminding me, when necessary, that there is more to life than books.