Casanova Life
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born in Venice, the son of actors who wanted him to become a priest. Instead he had numerous occupations, and is remembered as one of history's great lovers. Stephen Satarelli is a poet and translator of Italian and French literary works. Sophie Hawes is an artist, printmaker, and translator. Childhood and Early Life Giacomo Casanova was born in Venice on April 2, 1725. His father Gaetano Giuseppe Giacomo Casanova was an actor and ballet dancer while his mother Zanetta Farussi was a comedic actress. The couple had five children, out of which Giacomo was the eldest.
You’ve heard the name a thousand times… and know Casanova was the greatest seducer the western world has ever seen.
But what you might not know is that Giacomo Casanova was not only a womaniser, he was a renowned gambler, necromancer (magic involving the deceased), swashbuckler (noisy and boastful sword fighting), poet and a self confession bon vivant.
A true self-made gentleman in every sense of the word, a daredevil who rebelled against his parents and did pretty much whatever he wanted to do… that included a ton of women.
In his unfinished memoirs, Casanova wrote about his exploits and explained in graphic detail the encounters he has with women.
He even managed to have it off with a nun at one point! Oh yeah… what a boss.
Once imprisoned, he managed to break out and continue his amorous conquests… banging noblewomen along the way and dabbling in more crazy experiences than you or I could ever match.
So why was Casanova so damn good with women?
How to did he manage to seduce so many (hundreds not thousands) in his lifetime?
Well I’m about to reveal the 10 most important life lessons that Casanova lived by. The lessons that taught him how to talk to women, seduce them and make them crave his presense.
This is going to be interesting…
Lesson 1: Learn how to tell a story
Story telling was Casanova’s greatest secret. He was incredible at engaging and captivating a woman’s attention and mind, until she was fully absorbed in his words.
Once you learn how to tell a story, she will be imagining your words in her mind, feeling what you’re saying and trusting you much faster than she normally does. Ring any bells? This is connection and rapport.
Lesson 2: Live life as you wish
Chasing women is fun, but it’s not the main focus and never should be. Focusing on living a meaningful and fruitful life, will attract women naturally. They will be able to see you are different from other men and want to be wrapped up in your reality with you.
The more you live like you want to live, the more experiences you will find yourself in.
Lesson 3: Treat every woman like they are special
Women love romance and they love to feel unique. Don’t treat every woman the same way, treat each one as they should be treated, like they are the only woman in the world.
This doesn’t mean showering them with gifts and grovelling at every opportunity, it means being attentive and understanding to her feelings, emotions and truly caring for her.
This is what a real gentleman would do.
Lesson 4: Spontaneity is sexy
Women are divine creatures, but they get bored easily. They thrive on exciting adventures, so you must be more spontaneous, this is the only way you will woo them.
If you are like every other man, how can she possibly fall for you? Take her on an adventure, do things she has never done… no matter if they are simple or expensive.
Lesson 5: Show interest for her mind and life
It’s perfectly fine to show your appreciation of her body and looks, but if she is very pretty she will have heard this a thousand times before.
Be more interested in her life and mind, let her feel your curiosity. She will be grateful that you are not just another mad looking to bed her.
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What are her passions? What makes her laugh or smile? These things matter and connect your mind to hers.
Lesson 6: Flatter her senses
Casanova was a great believer in pheromones and aphrodisiacs, he used to perfume his room with tuberose because he believed that the flower stimulated sexual appetite. Use your bedroom and home as a way of flattering her senses.
Use food like Champagne and Oysters to increase the sexual desire and plant that seed of thought in her mind.
Lesson 7: Patience prevails
Never be overly keen, always say what needs to be said and wait for her to react. Don’t push her into an uncomfortable position, she needs to feel a deep level of attraction for you and this can take some time.
Lesson 8: Give her thoughtful gifts
Don’t buy a woman gifts in the hope that she’ll like you more. Only buy her gifts that will add a touch of excitement, thoughtfulness and will keep her smiling.
You could buy her sexy underwear and ask her to wear it for you, perform a private show and role play with you.
Lesson 9: Be playful
Don’t take life or women to seriously, be playful with them… sex is a game for adults so treat food, drink and experiences as a game which all leads up to the sex.
Foreplay is a game of teasing and starts from the moment you see one another, use this game to your advantage.
Lesson 10: Don’t lay all your cards on the table
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As a gambling man Casanova knew that he had to be the same unpredictable person as he was at the poker table. Never give the game away, always give her something to think about and second guessing your next move.
This will be exciting for her, because women like fantasy’s, a story unfolding with no end but full of excitement along the way.
So as you can see, very similar principles apply to today’s dating scene, they would be adapted slightly to fit the modern standards, but in terms of understanding how to woo a woman, these are solid!
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The Italian adventurer Giacomo Jacopo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-1798) is best known for his memoirs, which are a most revealing record of 18th-century European society.
The first child of an actor and actress, Casanova was born in Venice. He set out to play the comedy of life with a short role as an ecclesiastic but was expelled from the seminary in 1743. He found refuge in Rome with Cardinal Acquaviva, the first of his many powerful protectors. By 1745 he had returned to Venice, where he practiced magic. Forced to flee prosecution for engaging in the black arts, Casanova drifted from city to city. In Lyons in 1750 he joined the Free Masons, an allegiance that gave him support in the noble, free thinking circles of cosmopolitan Europe. Gambling, profiteering, and amorous activities marked his first stay in Paris (1750-1753). His luck held until 1755, when he was imprisoned in Venice for 'black magic, licentiousness, and atheism.' His spectacular escape is chronicled in the only portion of his memoirs to appear during his lifetime (1788).
The years 1756-1763 brought Casanova his most brilliant successes in a society dedicated to games of love and chance. Voltaire, whom he met briefly, judged him to be a 'mixture of science and imposture,' a suspect combination which nevertheless brought Casanova in contact with Frederick II and Catherine the Great.
Casanova himself divided his life into 'three acts of a comedy.' The second, which he thought of as lasting from 1763 to 1783, was less droll than the first. Protectors were less willing, and as the adventurer's brilliance faded, his charlatanism became more evident. From 1774 to 1782 Casanova added to his repertoire the role of 'secret agent' for the Republic of Venice, but he was less a spy than an informer.
Again obliged to leave Venice, Casanova began the third act of his comedy penniless and on the road. But in 1785 he gained the protection of the Count of Waldstein, in whose château at Dux (Bohemia) he stayed until his death in 1798. There he wrote his celebrated History of My Life, ending with the events of 1774, after which he had 'only sad things to tell.' Written in sometimes imperfect French, this work moves rapidly and frankly through vast amounts of personal and social detail. Besides tales of the 122 women whose favors he claims to have enjoyed, Casanova offers a chronicle of social extravagance and decline and a vision of Europe as complex and colorful as the bawdy, elegant, naively rational, desperately pretentious, and comic figure of 'Seingalt' himself.
Casanova's writings also include miscellaneous gallant verse, several treatises on mathematics, a three-volume refutation of Amelot de la Houssaye's history of Venetian government (1769), a translation of the Iliad (1775), and a five-volume novel of fantastic adventure to the center of the earth, Icosameron (1788).
Further Reading on Giacomo Jacopo Girolamo Casanova de Seinglat
Long limited to bowdlerized editions derived from a first German translation of the manuscript (acquired by Brockhaus in 1821), Casanova's History of My Life may now be read in a faithful translation by Willard R. Trask (4 vols., 1966-1967). The dean of Casanova scholars, James Rives Childes, wrote the definitive Casanova: A Biography (1961). The richly illustrated book by John Masters, Casanova (1969), provides valuable evocations of his life and times.
Additional Biography Sources
Buck, Mitchell S. (Mitchell Starrett), b. 1887., The life of Casanova from 1774 to 1798: a supplement to the Memoirs, Brooklyn: Haskell House, 1977.
Casanova, Giacomo, The life and memoirs of Casanova, New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, 1984.
Childs, J. Rives (James Rives), Casanova, a new perspective, New York: Paragon House Publishers, 1988.
Ricci, Seymour de, Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: an address to the Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia, 24 May 1923, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1976.
Roustang, Francois., The quadrille of gender: Casanova's 'Memoirs,' Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988.