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Giacomo Casanova

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Profession
Memoirist
Died
Jun 4, 1798
Zodiac
Aries
Born in
Italy
About
Remembered for his 3,500-page memoir, Histoire de ma vie, this eighteenth-century Italian writer and renowned womanizer was, because of the latter activity, the inspiration for the term "Casanova" (a descriptor of adventurous, unreliable men who are popular with women).
Family
Born in Venice, Italy, he was the son of actor parents Zanetta Farussi and Gaetano Giuseppe Casanova. Two of his five siblings, Francesco Giuseppe Casanova and Giovanni Battista Casanova, had successful careers as visual artists.

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