5 Maurice Andrieux, Daily Life in Venice at the Time of Casanova, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1972, p. 183
6 Antonio Valeri, ‘Casanoviana’, Fanfulla della Domenica, 25 June 1899
7 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.25
8 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.29
9 Carlo Goldoni, Mémoires, Duchesnes, Paris, 1787, Vol I, p.273
10 Goldoni, op.cit., Vol I, p.275
11 Goldoni, op.cit., Vol I, Ch XXXV, p.277
12 Goldoni, op.cit., Vol I, Ch XXXV, p.277
13 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.51
14 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.638
15 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.101
16 The queen: Elizabeth Maria Josepha (1669-1757), wife of Augustus III and Queen of Poland
17 HDMV, Bouquins I, pp.100-101
18 Beitrage zur Histoire und Aufnahme des Theaters, Stuttgart 1750, I, p.278, – quoted HDMV, Bouquins I, p.969
19 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.712
2 VIRGINS OF THE VENETO
1 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.783
2 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.28
3 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.32
4 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.33
5 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.33
6 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.35
7 Anon, cited in Muriel Segal, Virgins – Reluctant, Dubious and Avowed, Robert Hale, London 1978, p.88
8 Wetenhall Wilkes, A Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady, 1740, cited in Julie Peakman, Lascivious Bodies – A sexual history of the eighteenth century, Atlantic Books, London, 2004, p.27
9 Muriel Segal, Virgins, p.26
10 Voltaire, Notebooks, ed T. Besterman, 2nd Edn. 91968 Vol II, The Leningrad Notebooks (c.1735-1750), p.455
11 Casanova, Confutazione della Storia del Governo Veneto d’Amelot de la Houssaie, Amsterdam 1767, quoted in HDMV, Bouquins I, p.972
12 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.43
13 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.50
14 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.50
15 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.51
16 Charles de Brosses, Lettres Familières, Letter XIII, Paris 1931,1, p. 155. Quoted in Rives Childs, p.5
17 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.52
18 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.57
19 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.58
20 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 103
21 HDMV, Bouquins I, pp.58-9
22 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.70
23 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.75
24 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.71
25 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.72
26 Archivo della Parrochia S. Giacomo dall’Orio, battesimi 1705-1715 (Anno 1707)
27 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.78
28 HDMV, Bouquins I, pp.80-81
29 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.84
30 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.85
31 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.89
32 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.129
33 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.129
34 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.233
35 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.130
36 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 134
37 ‘in the year 1776’ Casanova adds, but he was mistaken. Bettina died on 29 June 1777
38 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.51
3 DONNA LUCREZIA
1 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.347
2 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 165
3 Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour, London 1749, Vol III, p.36.ff
4 NB: Capuchin monks did not shave
5 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 172
6 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 173
7 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 179
8 Johann Goethe, Italian Journey, translated by W.H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Penguin Classics, 1970, p. 184
9 Charles de Brosses, Selections from the Letters of Charles de Brosses, translated by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, Kegan Paul, London, 1897, p.115
10 Thomas Nugent, New Observations on Italy and its Inhabitants, written in French by two Swedish Gentlemen, translated by Nugent, L. Davis and C. Reymers, London, 1769, Vol II, p.212
11 Jerome le Français de Lalande, Voyage d’une Française en Italie fait dans les années 1765 et 1766, Paris, 1768, Vol VI. p.339
12 Thomas Nugent, New Observations, Vol II, pp.212-213
13 Carlo Goldoni, Mémoires, p.386
14 Charles de Brosses, Selections, pp.119-120
15 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 174
16 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 174
17 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 175
18 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 176
19 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 177
20 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 177
21 Johann Goethe, Italian Journey, Translated by W.H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Penguin Classics, 1970, p. 133
22 Charles de Brosses, Selections, p. 135
23 HDMV, Bouquins I, p, 179
24 HDMV, Bouquins I, p, 183
25 HDMV, Bouquins I, p, 184
26 HDMV, Bouquins I, p, 185
27 Johann Goethe, Italian Journey, p. 138
28 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 195
29 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 196
30 HDMV, Bouquins I, p. 196
31 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.203
32 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.204
33 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.205
34 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.579
35 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.627
36 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.636
37 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.637
38 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.310
39 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.639
40 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.639
41 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.640
42 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.644
43 Casanova, Letter to Opiz, January 10, 1791
44 J. Rives Childs, Casanova – A Biography
4 BELLINO
1 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.898
2 Cited in J. Rives Childs, Casanova -A New Perspective, Constable, London, 1989, p.33
3 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.225
4 Dr Charles Burney, The Present State of Music in France and Italy, cited in Angus Heriot, The Castrati in Opera, Seeker and Warburg, London, 1956, p.42
5 Cited in Angus Heriot, The Castrati, p.26
6 Charles de Brosses: Lettres Familières sur l’Italie, Paris, 1931, cited in Angus Heriot, The Castrati, p. 14
7 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.186
8 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.654
9 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.966
10 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.231
11 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.233
12 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.234
13 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.236
14 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.245, note 2
15 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.246
16 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.246
17 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.240
18 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.240
19 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.241
20 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.242
21 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.250
22 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.250
23 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.251
24 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.251
25 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.294
26 Archives de Dux, Marr 40-264. ‘Il est ordonné… de laisser sûrement et librement passer: Jacques Cazanua Italien âgé de trente deux ans, taille de cinq pieds dix pouces et demie ou Environs Visage long plain Bazanné Le nez long et gros. La bouche grande Les yeux bruns a fleure de teste Qui va en Flandre’
27 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.253
28 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.264
29 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.264
30 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.264
31 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.271
32 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.575
33 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.574
34 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.577
35 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.579
5 HENRIETTE
1 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.909
2 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.501
3 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.374
4 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.380
5 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.384
6 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.448
7 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.473
8 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.477
9 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.478
10 Tartan: a small, two-masted
sailing vessel
11 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.489
12 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.490
13 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.490
14 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.491
15 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.493
16 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.492
17 Louis Jean André, ‘Sous le Masque d’Anne d’Arci: Adélaïde de Gueidan’, Intermédiare des Casanovistes, No XIII, 1996, p. 10
18 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.501
19 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.69
20 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.508
21 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.511
22 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.517
23 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.517
24 Horace Walpole cited in The Grand Tour 1592-1796, ed. Roger Hudson, The Folio Society, London 1993, p.70
25 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.520
26 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.520
27 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.522
28 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.521
29 Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, cited in Roger Hudson, The Grand Tour, p.30
30 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.22
31 Casanova spoke French with a strong Italian accent
32 Letter of 28 May 1763 from Marie de Nairne to Baron Michel de Ramsay, cited in Compigny des Bordes, Casanova et la Marquise d’Urfé, n.p., Paris 1922, p.2
33 HDMV, Bouquins III, pp.63-4
34 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.65
35 Helmut Watzlawick ‘Fata Viam Invenient, or Henriette Forever’, Intermédiare des Casanovistes, No. VI, 1989
36 Jean Louis André, in the article ‘“Sous le Masque” d’Anne d’Arci: Adelaide de Gueidan’, Intermédiare des Casanovistes, No. XIII, 1996
37 ‘une foule de chambres et de cabinets obscurs’. Une Famille Provençale: Les Gueidan, Arts & Livres de Provence Bulletin No.29, Marseille 1956 p.81
38 Archives Départementales. Notaires d’Aix Series 303 E 486, p.1050
39 ‘une famille distinguée, qu’on pourrait même qualifier d’illustre’: Gaspard de Gueidan, cited in Une Famille Provençale: Les Gueidan, p.74
40 Une Famille Provençale: Les Gueidan, p.75
41 Archive Gueidan. Bibliothèque de l’Académie d’Aix-Musée Arbaud, Aix-en-Provence, cited by Louis Jean André, ‘Sous le masque’, p.11
42 In French: ‘pour le voiturier qui a porté la malle à Cannes’.
6 M.M.AND C.C.
1 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.649
2 HDMV, Bouquins I, pp.714-15
3 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.719
4 Pierre Gruet, ‘M.M. et Les Anges de Murano’, Casanova Gleanings, XVIII, 1975
5 Letter from Prince de Ligne to Casanova, cited in Bouquins I, p. 1046
6 Dr Charles Burney on the profession of a young Roman noblewoman, cited in Hudson, The Grand Tour, pp. 182-3
7 Arcangela Tarabotti, Inferno Monacale, cited in Mary Laven, Virgins of Venice, Viking, London, 2002, p.22
8 Arcangela Tarabotti, cited in Mary Laven, Virgins of Venice, Viking, London, 2002, p.31
9 James Howell, cited in James Morris, Venice, Faber & Faber, London, 1960, p.290
10 Anecdotes Dramatiques, Duchesne, Paris, 1775
11 François de Bernis, Memoirs and Letters of Cardinal Pierre de Bernis, translated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley, London, William Heinemann 1902, Vol I, p.172
12 François de Bernis, Memoirs and Letters, Vol I, pp. 175-6
13 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.790
14 Pilatti di Tassulo, Reisen in verschiedenen Landern von Europa in den Jahren 1774-5 und 1776, cited in Maurice Andrieux, Daily Life in Venice at the Time of Casanova, translated by Mary Fitton, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1972, pp.225/6
15 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.750.
16 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.668
17 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.662
18 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.671
19 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.679
20 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.709
21 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.713
22 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.721
23 HDMV, Bouquins 1, p.732
24 HDMV, Bouquins 1, p.736
25 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.747
26 HDMV, Bouquins I, pp.757-8
27 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.760
28 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.771
29 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.798
30 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.799
31 François de Bernis, Memoirs and Letters, Vol I, p. 177
32 My house in the fields: In March 1754, de Bernis rented a villa on the Brenta Canal which linked Venice and Padua
33 Cited in Rives Childs, Casanova, p.82
34 Letter from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 30 May 1757, cited in Rives Childs, Casanova, pp.83-4
35 Rives Childs, Casanova, p.84
36 Giovanni Battista Manuzzi, ‘Report to the Inquisitors Concerning Casanova’s Activities’, 17 July 1755, cited in Story of My Life, translated by Willard R. Trask, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1977, Vol 4, p.357
37 Manuzzi, cited in Bouquins, I, p. 1055
38 Rives Childs, Casanova, p.85
7 MANON BALLETTI
1 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.847
2 Emile Campardon, Les Comédiens du Roi de la Troupe Italienne – Slatkine Reprints, Geneva, 1970, p. 12
3 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.16
4 HDMV, Bouquins I, pp.560-1
5 Archives de la Bastille, 10243 ff 187-9, and 10235 fol. 362 v°
6 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.866
7 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.868
8 Manon Balletti, letter to Casanova, Archives at Dux, Marr 8-139
9 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.15
10 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.31
11 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.55
12 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.57
13 HDMV, Bouquins II, pp.65-6
14 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.42
15 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-139
16 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-139
17 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-161
18 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-145
19 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-150
20 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-149
21 Stronsegosse – the invented word seems to be a mixture of Italian and French: Stronse: Ital: excrement and gosse: Fr: a kid, or brat
22 Archives at Dux Marr 8-142
23 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-156
25 Archives de Dux, Marr 8-143
26 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-155
27 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-130
28 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-153
29 Archives at Dux Marr 8-135
30 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-136
31 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-141
32 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-144
33 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.199
34 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-137
35 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-148
36 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-121
37 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-132
38 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.148
39 Giustiniana Wynne to Andrea Memmo, 8 January 1759, cited in Rives Childs, Casanova, p. 102
40 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.191
41 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.209
42 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.199
43 Archives de Dux, Marr 8-129
44 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-152
45 Marr 8-147
46 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-147
47 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.247
48 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-126
49 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-137
50 Archives at Dux, Marr 8-159
51 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.242
52 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.242
53 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.247
54 Pierre Labracherie, Sihia et Mario en Ménage, L’Illustre Théâtre, la Vie et l’Histoire de la Comédie Française, No 3., Editions du Tertre, Paris 1955, pp.29-32
55 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.706
8 THE MARQUISE D’URFé
1 Bouquins I, p.3
2 Archives Nationale de France, T47925
3 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.87
4 Renée Froulay, Souvenirs d
e la Marquise de Crêquyde 1710a 1803, n.p., Paris, 1842
5 Jacques Cazotte, letter of 8 May 1792, cited in Charles Samaran, Jacques Casanova Vénitien, Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1914, p.213
6 Edouard Maynial, Casanova and His Time, translated by Ethel Colburn Mayne, Chapman & Hall, London, 1911, p. 148
7 Arche de la Bastille, 11751
8 Letter from M. de Beausset to the Duc de Choiseul, cited in Edouard Maynial, Casanova and His Time, p. 156
9 Report by Manuzzi of 11 November 1754, quoted Maynial, Casanova and his Time, p. 152
10 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.8-9
11 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.85
12 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.95
13 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.96
14 N. du Hausset, Secret memoirs of the courts of Louis XV and XVI, n.p., Paris, 1904
15 cited in Maynial, Casanova and His Time, p.7
16 Memoires of Madame Hausset, quoted in Edouard Maynial, p. 13
17 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.95
18 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.184
19 Archives Nationales de France, Y 11337, comm Chenon. See also Samaran, Jacques Casanova, p.240
20 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.471
21 In Aristotelian thought, it was believed that people had two souls, one sensitive, one intelligent
22 HDMV, Bouquins II, pp.731-2
23 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.737
24 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.783
25 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.36
26 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.41
27 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.44
28 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.42
29 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.50-51
30 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.76
31 Letter to Passano from Teresa Cornelys, 28 June 1763, cited in Samaran, Jacques Casanova, pp.222-5
32 Letter from Passano to Marquise d’Urfé, cited in Samaran, pp.224-5
33 Cited in HDMV, Bouquins II, p.935
34 Giacomo Passano, letter of 11 July 1763, quoted in Samaran, pp.227-8
35 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.198
36 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.716
37 Marquise d’Urfé, Bibliothèque Municipale de Montbrison, cited in Samaran, pp.230/31
38 Archives at Dux, Marco-134
39 Archives Nationales de France, F7 4 648, cited in Samaran, p.246
40 Cited in Samaran, p.246
41 Archives Nationales de France, Y 11,577 and Y10894
42 Comte de Perouse, letter of 15 December 1773. Archives de Dux, cited in HDMV, Bouquins II, p.973
9 MARIANNE DE CHARPILLON AND PAULINE
1 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.670
2 Comte d’Espinchal, Journal d’émigration, n.p., Paris, 1913, pp.35-6