Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725–June 4, 1798) was a famous 18th century Italian adventurer whose name has become synonymous with seduction.
He studied for the church but was expelled from school for immorality. A life of adventure took him all over Europe. He supported himself by gambling, spying, writing, and, especially, by his power to seduce women, and his personal charm affected the foremost persons of his time. Arrested (1755) in Venice, he accomplished the notable feat of escaping (1756) from the “leaden roofs” of the state prison. In Paris, where he enjoyed favor in court circles, he became director of the lottery and amassed a fortune. In 1785 Casanova retired to the castle of Dux, Bohemia, where his friend Count Waldstein employed him as librarian. A man of learning and taste, with interests ranging from mathematics, poetry, and literary and musical criticism to commercial and political projects, Casanova left many writings. His memoirs, written in French, became world-famous. Only abridged versions were published until 1960, when the complete memoirs began to appear in French and in German translation. Accurate as to history, the memoirs probably contain much invented personal matter. Other papers, in prose and verse, were released in 1930.
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Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725–June 4, 1798) was a famous 18th century Italian adventurer whose name has become synonymous with seduction.
He studied for the church but was expelled from school for immorality. A life of adventure took him all over Europe. He supported himself by gambling, spying, writing, and, especially, by his power to seduce women, and his personal charm affected the foremost persons of his time. Arrested (1755) in Venice, he accomplished the notable feat of escaping (1756) from the “leaden roofs” of the state prison. In Paris, where he enjoyed favor in court circles, he became director of the lottery and amassed a fortune. In 1785 Casanova retired to the castle of Dux, Bohemia, where his friend Count Waldstein employed him as librarian. A man of learning and taste, with interests ranging from mathematics, poetry, and literary and musical criticism to commercial and political projects, Casanova left many writings. His memoirs, written in French, became world-famous. Only abridged versions were published until 1960, when the complete memoirs began to appear in French and in German translation. Accurate as to history, the memoirs probably contain much invented personal matter. Other papers, in prose and verse, were released in 1930.
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Greta Garbo
Born: 18 September 1905
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Death: 15 April 1990
Best Known As: The starlet who said "I want to be alone"
Name at birth: Greta Lovisa Gustafsson
Garbo was an enigmatic superstar of silent films and early Hollywood "talkies" until her surprising retirement at age 36. She was discovered in Sweden and moved to America under contract to MGM Studios, where she played aloof, dramatic beauties in films like Flesh and The Devil (1926) and Mysterious Lady (1928). She became a star and made the transition to talking pictures: Anna Christie (1930) was promoted with the famous tag line "Garbo Talks!" In the 1930s she played doomed title characters like Mata Hari (1932) and Anna Karenina (1935) and was a pensive ballerina in the 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel, where she uttered the famous line "I want to be alone." She changed styles a bit for the 1939 Ernst Lubitsch satire Ninotchka, with Garbo as a drab Soviet envoy transformed by a Parisian romance. She stopped making films in 1941, refusing all attempts to lure her back to Hollywood, and settled in New York City. She dropped from public life entirely, and her solitary nature -- combined with her earlier movie mystique -- earned her a reputation as a romantic recluse.
Garbo never married, though she had a much-publicized relationship with her silent film co-star John Gilbert... Garbo was irritated by the famous quote attributed to her, and reportedly told friends, "I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is a world of difference."
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