3 Report of 16 April 1750, Archives de la Bastille, 10238, fol.306-308
4 Archives de la Bastille, 10238, fol.306-309
5 Archives de la Bastille, 10238, fol.312-315
6 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.222
7 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.231
8 Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies, n.p., London, 1793
9 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.85
10 Cited in J. Rives Childs, Casanova, p. 188
11 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.165
12 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.195
13 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.198
14 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.221
15 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.221
16 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.222
17 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.234
18 Marianne de Charpillon, letter to Casanova, Archives at Dux, Marr 2-210
19 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.236
20 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.245
21 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.247
22 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.251
23 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.253
24 Records of Clerkenwell Court, Middlesex, cited in J. Rives Child, Casanova, p. 189/190
25 BL, Add MSS. 30880B. fol.71
26 Gentleman’s Magazine, 68, 1798, p.81
27 BL Add Mss. 30880A, fol. 36
28 BL Add Mss. 30880A, fol. 40
29 BL Add Mss. 30880A, fol. 36
30 BL Add Mss. 30880A, fol. Ill
31 BL Add Mss. 30880A, fol. 75
32 BL Add Mss. 30880A, letter of 9 July 1775
33 BL Add Mss. 30880A, ff.99
34 BL Add Mss. 30880A, ff.83
35 BL Add Mss. 30880A. ff.139
36 BL Add Mss. 30880A. ff.141
37 BL Add Mss. 30880A. ff.143
38 BL Add Mss. 30880A. ff. 145
39 BL Add Mss. 30880A. ff.147
10 SOPHIA WILLIAMS AND TERESA IMER CORNELYS
1 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.310
2 Sophia Williams, cited in Donald Clarke, A Daisy in the Broom, The Story of a School 1820-1958, Julia London, Tweeddale, 1991, p.13
3 Sophia Williams, cited in Clarke, A Daisy, p.25
4 Sophia Williams, cited in Clarke, A Daisy, p.114
5 HDMV, Bouquins II, p.122
6 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.142
7 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.142
8 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.69
9 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.844
10 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.396
12 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.166
13 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.173
14 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.208
15 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.215
16 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.227
17 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.825
18 Clarke, A Daisy, p. 15
19 Cited in Judith Summers, The Empress of Pleasure, Viking-Penguin, London, 2002, pp.255-6
20 Will of Sophia Wilhelmina Frederica Williams, PRO, Prob 11/1673
21 Cited in Clarke, A Daisy, p. 17
22 John Taylor, Records of My Life, Edward Bull, London, 1832
11 4 JUNE 1798
1 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.245
2 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.767
3 In his manuscript Casanova first transcribed twenty-one, then crossed it out. In fact, they had parted in December 1749 or January 1750, nineteen and a half years previously
4 HDMV, Bouquins III, pp.731-2
5 HDMV, Bouquins III, 732
6 HDMV, Bouquins III, p.987
7 Casanova, letter to Lorenzo Morosini, 22 September 1782, cited in Rives Childs, Casanova, p.281
8 Francesca Buschini, letter of 14 April 1784
9 Francesca Buschini, letter of 29 May 1784
10 Prince de Ligne, Pensées, portraits et lettres à Casanova et à la marquise de Coigny, Rivages Poches, Paris 2002, p.86. The prince has written 1742, meaning the year of Casanova’s birth. In fact, he was born in 1725
11 Letter from Elisa von der Recke, 29 April 1798, Archives of Dux, Marr 8-12
12 HDMV, Bouquins I, p.9
13 HDMV, Vol I Preface, Bouquins I, p.4
14 Prince de Ligne, Pensées, p.91
15 Casanova, music by Goran Vejvoda, choreography and costumes by Angelin Preljocaj, 1998
16 Dominick Argento, Casanova’s Homecoming, 1984; and Daniel Schnyder, Casanova
17 Casanova by Johan de Meij, 1999
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PICTURE CREDITS
FRONTISPIECE
Giacomo Casanova Pastel portrait by Francesco Casanova (1727-1802) Dashcov Collection, State Historical Museum, Moscow
p.23 Zanetta Casanova Silhouette of the actress found amongst Casanova’s possessions at Dux
PLATE SECTION
Venice: The Doge’s Palace and the Molofrom the Basin of San Marco Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) Oil on canvas. 58.1 x 76.4cm. Photo © National Gallery, London
The Parlour of the Nuns at San Zaccharia Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) Oil on canvas. 108 x208cm. Ca’Rezzonico Museum, Venice. Photo © Ca’Rezzonico Museum, Venice
Teresa Lanti Anonymous, 18th century Bolognese School. The Scala Theatre Museum, Milan
Manon Balletti Jean-Marc Nattier, 1757. Oil on Canvas. 54 x 47.5cm. Photo © National Gallery, London
Thalia, Muse of Comedy Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766) Oil on Canvas. 53½ x49in. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Mildred Anna Williams Collection, 1954.59
Adéläide de Gueidan and her Sister Polyxène at the Harpsichord 18th century French School. Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence. Photo © Musée Granet, by kind permission of Bernard Terlay
Teresa Cornelys Permission British Library. Shelfmark 1889b.10/1-8
Mrs Sophia Williams Anonymous, oil on canvas. The Princess Helena College, Hertfordshire. Photo © Martin L. Thompson
View of Dux Castle Anonymous, 19th century. Photo © and permission Duchcov Castle, Duchcov, Czech Republic
AUTHOR’S NOTE
By his own estimation Giacomo Casanova made love to several hundred women during his lifetime, of which around one hundred and fifty are separately mentioned in his twelve-volume memoir. Any book about the women in his life must therefore either be extremely long or extremely selective. I have taken the latter option and made a very personal choice, which is to write about the women whom I consider were the most important to him or the most interesting. Since Casanova discreetly disguised the names of many of his lovers, their real identities are often a matter of conjecture. In some cases the proof seems overwhelming, but in other cases the jury is still out. I have chosen to go with the person I consider to be the most likely candidate; others may of course disagree with me.
It would not have been possible to write this book without the Robert Laffont/Bouquins edition of Casanova’s twelve-volume autobiography, Histoire de ma Vie. Brilliantly edited by Francis Lacassin, it contains almost everything anyone interested in Casanova wants to know, including the integral text of the memoirs. It is this Bouquins three-volume paperback edition that I have referenced in my footnotes, referring to each quotation by the Bouquins volume number, followed by the page number.
Past and present Casanova scholars have trawled scrupulously through the archives of Europe before me in order to pin down the adventurer and his women, and I am deeply indebted to their research. I would particularly like to thank Helmut Watzlawick; Jean Louis André for his articles on Henriette; Furio Luccichenti; Pablo Günther; and most of all Marco Leeflang, for his help and encouragement throughout this project.
Thanks to my agent Clare Alexander; and to Rosemary Davidson, Mary Instone and Erica Jarnes at Bloomsbury Publishing in London, and Kathy Belden at Bloomsbury, New York; Dr Jiri Wolf of the Casanova Study Room at the Museum Duchcov; Matteo Sartorio of the Museo Teatrale alia Scala, Milan; Filippo de Vivo, for his advice on eighteenth-century Venice; André Maire of the Archives Municipales de Lyon; Bernard Terlay of the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence; Ann-Marie Hodgkiss and Heather Baim of the Princess Helena College, Hertfordshire; Donald Clarke; Gabriella Massaglia; the Biblioteca Spadoni at La Pergola Theatre in Florence; Enrico Tellini of the Teatro San Carlo in Milan; Roy Harrison of the City of Westminster Archives; Martin L.Thompson, for his photograph of Sophia Williams; and Martina Vaclavkova, the most delightful Czech translator one could wish for.
Without the kindness and wonderful hospitality of my friend Eva Kolokova I would probably still be lost somewhere on the road between Prague and Duchcov. Without Donald Sassoon to help
me with the most tricky translations, my nose would still be buried in French and Italian dictionaries. And without my sister Sue Summers’ encouragement I might still be floundering in mid-book despair.
I owe a great debt of thanks to my brother-in-law, Philip Norman, for all the time and effort he very generously put in to helping me edit this book. His advice was invaluable, as it always is. And last but by no means least, thanks to my son Joshua for putting up with my erratic moods and preoccupations with such good grace, and for reminding me, when necessary, that there is more to life than books.
Judith Summers, London, April 2006
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Judith Summers is the author of four novels and two non-fiction books, The Empress of Pleasure and the prize-winning Soho, A History of London’s Most Colourful Neighbourhood. Born and brought up in London, she studied Fine Art in Bristol and Manchester, and trained as a film editor with the BBC. After becoming a tourist guide, she discovered a passion for historical research. She has written widely on London, and lives in north London.
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