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.
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Well you know what they say, men use love to get sex, and women use sex to get love.
Not sure if he a feminist but he was certainly a Casanova.
Isn’t Casanova a self admitted rapist/pedophile? Didn’t he write in his own autobiography that he molested an ex flame’s 9 year old daughter?
Edit: he bought a 13 year old sex slave named Helene when he was 40 in 1765. In 1774 he wrote that he met with a former lover, an actress named Irene. He also describes how he molested her 9 year old daughter and how she “pleased him” and “did not reject his caresses”. Why are we still romanticizing this guy? He’s dead and the stuff I just mentioned, he admitted to himself in his own memoirs. He can’t sue anyone for slander, so why are we not looking at the skeletons in his closet?
“He will throw everything away for love”
…more like lust. 😅 When you only get involved with people you know you can’t have or cut off “relationships” before you catch feelings, that’s not love.
It’s not bad, if both people are willing, but it’s not love (imo)…and attacking someone? No.
I didn't know he was real
Lady is right hoes since the beginning of time.
I love watching these videos! Thank you!
The whole promiscuous lifestyle in a marriage or not is why there are tons of one parent children or grandparents raising the child(ren).
As every feminist knows: Cassanova was and is a role model for all straight men.
Casanova was trying to find himself in sex. He had no true substance. His only pursuit in life was booty. There's plenty men even today who live their lives in the pursuit of conquest. Today, we'd call these people sex addicts which is likely what he was.
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I enjoy docs like this but as an amateur historian myself, it’s always funny to me how modern people act like no one in history could have had modern ideas or thoughts. Many people did. But it was clear from the beginning that he was abused by the maid and that probably affected him his whole life. Perhaps because he was abused, he had more empathy towards women that other men of his era did not. After all it was much more common for women to be sexually abused at that age. I’m glad they’re acknowledging it can happen to men too, that’s ignored too often.
Ok, I was going to complain about the ugly actor they picked here, to play Casanova……..till I saw painted portraits of the guy….. What was wrong with the women back then? Were they all blind? Or just so sex starved? The guy was stumpy, podgy, had bulging eyes, fat cheeks, a child's mouth, short legs, terrible hair, etc! I looked and looked, and could not see ANYTHING remotely sexy about him, by any stretch of the imagination! There's just nothing there. He just looks like a short, podgy, chubby little boy, and not a good looking one. He just looks boring.
Good lord, there’s a lot of immature puritanical people in this comment section. Why did you click on a video about Casanova if you didn’t want to hear about sex?
I totally understand the fun of seduction. reading all the comments below I'm probably a rapist…..wow has the world turned crazy?
Casanova was a selfish arrogant man who liked to use women and then when they didn’t seem to like them using him.
I’m sorry is this documentary trying to glamorize or gloss over the fact that he was sadistically groomed/abused? He was NINE for crying out loud🙄..nothing glamorous about ch!ld pred@tors🤢
Has his autobiography ever been correlated with other sources? I mean, this could all be made up.
Hyper sexual person can also be a symptom of Bipolar disorder
He literally fucked his daughter lmfao. and even after he knew about it, you could decide for yourself
What a sad and empty life.
Those whom face their truths, live their truths, and have a clarity of truth, so far exceed their fellow 99%, (the masses whom never master their Lower Mind, aka Ego Mind,, most never even discover the fact, the "what holds them from their desires".)
Oh Casanova, can you believe, in the 21st Century, you're still being judged?
If it was about indulging in Desserts, Wine, Gambling, Work, Drugs, etc, would each judgement be the same?
Or is it a presumption that each woman was lied to?
I don't think any were under the wrong impression, they chose to engage.
It's that it doesn't follow the created superficial "Dance", a Cultural Ideology.
That's why he's judged, he poured his energy into the Passion, the engaging, rather than the Dance.
"He wasn't the sort of man to brag about his conquests to other men" – he literally wrote books about his sexual exploits.
The apologist trying to make Casanova a feminist modernist icon is laughable. He was clearly a sexual predator an addict.. you may have had tenderness but remember he had sex with his daughter fostering his grandson and a 7-year-old girl.
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Casanova a feminist? Give me a break 😂