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His name has become synonymous with the term "womanizer". But a new perspective may shed a more positive light on the life of Giacomo Casanova. A true son of the renaissance, Casanova was a musician, a cleric, a spy and a lover. He led a tempestuous life where he amassed and lost fortunes, invented the National Lottery, fought duels with Counts, and had the most famous love life of all time. This dramatised documentary series is based upon a collection of letters left by Casanova in the library of Duchov Palace where he died at the age of 73, all but forgotten by a world that he had charmed, amazed and shocked only a few years before.

Was Casanova Actually A Womanizer? | Casanova is presented by Absolute History. Its listed runtime is 49 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.

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Was Casanova Actually A Womanizer? | Casanova
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Society
Runtime
49 minutes
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English

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