The Real Casanova Was A Truly Twisted Man D
not many people get their names stamped on history but jako geralo kasanova wasn’t like most people born in the hedonistic capital of the world kasanova adventured his way across Europe for decades and wherever he went people remembered his name but while his playful escapades are the stuff of Legends there was a chilling Darkness to this debaucherous figure as a young man A friend told kasanova that he was bound to pay the price for his depraved lifestyle of eventually kasanova laughed him off unaware that his friend’s words would come true in the most gruesome way possible which we’ll get into a bit later anyone who knows an actor will tell you they’re a different breed it should be no surprise then that the infamous casanova’s parents made their living on stage Gano kasanova and zaneta fusi ended up having six children with herjc being the first though kasanova traveled all over Europe his name was
synonymous with one city Venice there was no better town for him to call home either while Paris was sleek and romantic Venice was about one thing partying though the ruling class was honestly quite prudish and conservative they tolerated their City’s vices and raked in the cash hand over fist because of it Venice was the pleasure capital of Europe and young men from all over the continent would make the pilgrimage there to party Gamble and visits the city’s legendary cat houses in that hot House of theba Tre and sin kasanova was born though kasanova had a huge family it wasn’t really a happy one his parents were far more interested in the glamour of the stage than they were in you know parenting they dumped Casanova off with his grandmother while they traped off across Europe if you saw the womanizing gambling degenerate Man kasanova became you might think that guy probably didn’t have a strong Father Figure in his life well you’d be right his father abandoned him for the road
then went and croaked when Casanova was just 8 years old then as if the little rake didn’t have enough problems he began to suffer from chronic nose beds but don’t you worry his grandmother had a Sinister plan to cure him his grandmother brought him through the Maze of canals to his small hubel just a boy he entered to find a withered old woman sitting on a pallet she had a black cat in her hands and half a dozen more wandered throughout the small room the witch performed a mysterious incantation over Casanova before applying a pungent sad to his nose she promised his nose beds would trouble him no further the boy and his grandmother left in awe did it really matter that his nose beds came back almost immediately not to casan NOA it didn’t he couldn’t care less that the witch’s spell hadn’t worked he was completely enthralled by her thus began his lifelong obsessions with magic and the Occult something that would find him in no end of trouble before long a
doctor believed venice’s dense air caused his nose beds so his family shipped him off to a boarding house on the mainland of Padua his mother had abandoned him for the road now she’d essentially kicked him out of the house kasanova never forgot about it unable to hide his bitterness even in his Memoirs written decades later certainly the horrific conditions in the boarding house didn’t help matters either kasanova was miserable to leave his beloved Venice for a boarding house on the mainland he was even more miserable when he arrived and saw the squalled building that was meant to be his new home but here’s the thing about jaimo Casanova when the going got tough he found a way to talk himself out of it his parents had hired a man named Abbe gazi as his tutor in Padua kasanova begged gazi to take him in and the man fell for his charms Hook Line and Sinker gazi’s Place wasn’t a palace but it was a whole lot better than the boarding house it was also where kasanova discovered his greatest Vice while under
gazi’s care though only 11 years old kasanova had his first experience with a woman in his Memoirs Casanova recalled gazi’s younger sister Betina fondling him while he was still just a boy he later looked back on that day with delight and it Formed an obsession with patina that lasted for his entire life however it also might help explain the Sinister impulses that hang over casanova’s complicated Legacy like a stormcloud but those come later for now casanova’s Guardians tried their best to make an honest upstanding citizen out of a a young man clearly they failed miserably anyone who knew the young kasanova quickly realized he was brilliant gazi got him into the University of Padua at age 12 and he graduated at 17 with a law degree his family and gazi both hoped he was destined for a fine respectable Life as a clerical lawyer he certainly had the smarts for it but there’s a reason you don’t think of lawyer when you hear the
name kasanova the kid was smart but he learned two important things at University one he absolutely hated law two he loved gambling neither one helped him very much as he Grew Older casanova’s gambling while at school eventually got so bad that his grandmother had to drag him back to Venice to get him away from the negative influence of his fellow students and his addiction would see him fluctuate from Rags to Riches over and over throughout his life so which would come first as a teenager Casanova found work as a clerical law clerk in Venice while finishing his degree he was also growing in to a young man with a taste for the Finer Things in life you definitely wouldn’t miss him on the streets with his tall frame handsome features and long hair even as a teen kasanova was the kind of guy of whom people took notice and thankfully for him some of those people had some seriously Deep Pockets if kasanova was good at anything it was getting people to give him money he got started during his second stint
in Venice ingratiating himself with a wealthy Patron an elderly Senator named Alis gaspero mipiro mipiro lived in one of the city’s finest palaces and in Venice that was saying something mipiro funded many of casanova’s earliest Adventures kasanova fascinated the old man and he helped teach this burgeoning libertine about High Society kasanova became well-versed in fine Spirits gourmet food and the complicated web of manners and behavior expected among venice’s Upper Crust yet of course since this is kasanova we’re talking about he man managed to screw it all up in the most scandalous way possible the senator caught kasanova fooling around with an actress he himself had an eye on and he flipped out he kicked both of them out of his Palace and just like that kasanova had lost his cash cow it wasn’t even like Casanova had slept with his Patron’s Crush because he was actually still a virgin at that point but wouldn’t you know it that was about to
change Casanova lost his vCard in the most Casanova way imaginable his first physical experience with a woman was with two women and they were sisters years later kasanova wrote that his experience with those two sisters convinced him his purpose in life was to sleep with as many women as possible but wait wasn’t he technically a cleric aren’t those two things kind of incompatible being a cleric was maybe the worst profession possible for kasanova the second worst probably military officer yet he still gave it a shot however he didn’t enlist without any sense of patriotism or Valor nope he just loved the uniforms he ended up stationed at Corfu but the only moments he didn’t hate were when he gambled away his pay playing cards with his fellow officers pretty soon he couldn’t take it anymore he flat out abandoned his post and returned to Venice he even had an idea for a new career path one that was
definitely more up his alley no kasanova didn’t set out to become a jiggalo he wanted to be a professional gambler there was just one problem turns out the guy couldn’t win a bet to save his life upon his return to Venice he almost instantly lost all the money he’d saved up but kasan NOA never made his money by gambling he made it by schmoozing with Rich old men and that’s just what he did next he reconnected with an old Patron and they even helped him get a new gig Show Business was in his blood so after three failed careers for if you’re counting gambling kasanova decided to give it a go he started performing as a violinist but don’t go picturing him as some rock star there’s one thing musicians in casanova’s day had in common with those of today they loved to party but drinking and women were only one part of the equation let’s not forget about the pranks mischief and merrymaking were the name of the game for kasanova at this point in his life
what he did next then must have surprised even him kasanova found himself on the Gondola with yet another Rich Senator suddenly disaster struck the man suffered a stroke and collapsed the doctor tried their best but the senator seemed to be at death’s door that’s when kasanova sprang into action kasanova started barking orders did he know what he was doing not really but even in his youth kasanova could project confidence so the men listened to him then to everyone’s shock the senator actually recovered the senator invited him into his home and became his lifelong Patron the poor old man had no idea what he was in for then a new chilling accusation came out against kasanova a young woman went to the local authorities and accused kasanova of a non-consensual encounter in casanova’s retelling the accusation was all part of a con she was playing on him certainly the authorities took the accusation
extremely seriously and kasanova fled Venice thus far nearly all of casanova’s Affairs had been fleeting things when he fled to Parma he found the last thing he ever expected a woman who made him feel like a fool a French woman we know only as onette became the most passionate love of his life she was beautiful brilliant and cultured for the first time kasanova met a woman he judged his Superior you know how we know onet was smart she saw right through casanova’s masks for the depraved Rogue that he was though she had her fun with him she realized he was no man to settle down with she wasn’t about to end up in poverty attached to some degenerate Gambler she snuck around with kasanova for a while then dropped him like a sack of hammers for kasanova it was the lowest point of his life but don’t you worry he could sink so much lower after moping around Venice for a
time he saved up enough money to set off on a grand tour of Europe finally kasanova made it to France where he quickly set off down a new dark path in Lions France kasanova discovered Freemasonry he still loved the occult dating all the way back to that which from his childhood he also loved rich and powerful people whom he could dupe into giving him money the Freemasons were bursting with both he quickly Rose through the ranks and became a Master Mason the Masons helped kasanova infiltrate the upper echelons of French society just like he had back home kasanova stayed in France for 2 years where he continued to live off wealthy patrons but in case you haven’t been paying attention as long as kasanova had money to party he was going to cross the line sooner or later once two years were up the Parisian authorities knew him well countless complaints would see to that they were just waiting for a chance to lock up the lascivious libertine kasanova fled Paris with law enforcement
hot on his heels next kasanova ended up reuniting with his mother brother and sister in Dresden but life in Dresden was too boring for kasanova the steamy canals of Venice called him back and against his better judgment he listened kasanova managed to return to Venice with a clean slate but he quickly dirtied it up again blasphemy obscenity adultery fighting casanova’s record with law enforcement grew longer with each passing day pretty soon those in charge tried to get him off the streets once and for all venician authorities could put up with a lot but kasanova the occultist philandering predatory Freemason found their limit they hired a state spy to dig up any dirt on him obviously the man didn’t have to look very hard casanova’s remarkable streak of evading the law was about to end kasanova went to prison for the first time at age 30 that’s right everything we’ve covered here took place before he turned 30 authorities charged him with
an affront to religion and common decency citing his public outragers as evidence they locked him up in the doj’s palace to await sentencing he sat and prayed that one of his many rich friends might come to save him they did not 5 years imprisonment for a man like kasanova that was an eternity what adventurer’s life would be complete without a daring prison escape kasanova used an iron bar to dig a hole in his cell’s floor for weeks planning his Escape just before he could flee guards moved him to a new cell ruining his plan he adapted he adapted smuggling the bar escaping with a fellow inmate through the ceiling they then commanded a gondola and got the heck out of there forced to flee Venice for the second time kasanova made his way back to Paris there he planned his greatest scheme yet in Paris kasanova helped found the first ever State Lottery the plan was brilliant the consumate salesman
kasanova sold countless tickets some of the money went to the winner some went to the state and kasanova got the rest not only did this make him a rich man once more the government now had every reason to turn a Blind Eye to his constant scandals as long as he was bringing in the cash once again kasanova was living the high life and once again he just couldn’t help screw it up for himself he found himself Behind Bars over gambling debts once again he only stayed locked up for 4 days but once he got out he heard that his most powerful Patron had a falling out with the King Louis the 15th kasanova was out of money and out of favors and his enemies smelled blood in the water Paris was too dangerous and since he didn’t want to end up in another dark flee infested cell he got the heck out of there he sold all his belongings and fled to Germany there he lost that money and ran away to Switzerland before the authorities caught up with him in Switzerland kasanova actually considered becoming
get this a monk but he eventually reverted back to his old womanizing self and abandoned all plans of a monastic life kasanova returned to Paris determined to keep his head low but he just couldn’t help himself he convinced one of his patrons the elderly Maris du that he could use the dark arts to turn her into a young man I’m not quite sure what he was thinking though in the end mares did not turn into an old man and she lost all faith in him she cut him off and suddenly without her money Paris lost its appeal next stop London Town being one of the few places in Europe he hadn’t haunted kasanova set sail for England in 1763 hoping to pull his Lottery scam there he still chased women as doggedly before but he couldn’t actually speak English so he came up with a rather unsettling plan to get his fix since he couldn’t use the Gift of Gab to woo women Casanova tried something else he
put out an ad in the local newspaper to rent out his apartment when any young woman arrived to inquire he seduced them according to his Memoirs he found many lovers this way including Miss Pauline one of the most passionate Affairs since onet but while as always his Memoirs painted his trist as consensual hedonistic Affairs I can’t be the only one who thinks the man luring women to his apartment under false pretenses to seduce them might not be telling the whole truth catfishing aside England was not kind to kasanova and he quickly gambled through the little funds he’d gathered by selling his Patron stuff plus he was getting older and just like his old Mentor had said he was starting to pay the price for his scandalous lifestyle he suffered from Lord knows how many venial diseases and they were starting to eat away at his once dashing frame but not even that could slow Casanova down he ventured from country to Country trying to sell people on his Lottery scheme but he wasn’t the
handsome charismatic man he’d once been wherever he went people eventually ran him out of town be it after a near fatal duel in Warsaw or a failed assassination attempt in Spain then finally the moment he’d been waiting for arrived he received word that his record had been expunged and that he could return to Venice after 18 years in Exile kasanova was returning home at first kasanova enjoyed what felt like a triumphant return to Venice he spent years writing about his escapades and he’d become a local celebrity even the inquisitors asked him to regil them with the tale of how he’d escaped their prison but Casanova soon realized that something was different about Venice it wasn’t the same of sin that he left all those years ago soon after returning to Venice Casanova heard of his mother’s passing they’d never been close but the loss still affected him however the worst
tragedy was soon to follow patina gazi the woman who’ first introduced him to carnal pleasure all those decades ago was not long for this world kasanova rushed to her bedside where she’d end up dying in his arms in his 20s Casanova lit up any room he entered by age 49 that jovial young man was gone small Pock scars and sunken cheeks marred the once handsome face venial diseases left him weak as a kitten he no longer had the money for gambling and couldn’t charm his way through glamorous parties anymore he became irritable and strange one friend described him as having a ferocious air kasanova spent his final years in Bohemia modern day Czech Republic at yet another Patron’s Castle however he felt as miserable there as he had in Venice his new Patron was even Stranger than he often refusing to speak to him for days at a time the locals
also couldn’t stand this grotesque paranoid Italian who invaded their Castle however no matter how miserable he was he had nowhere else to go by some miracle kasanova made it to age 73 the rockus days of his youth had long since ended and he had faded from public memory he passed in such obscurity that we still have no idea where his grave is all that remained of his scandalous youth were his Memoirs and the hearts he broke along the way sex wasn’t just a passion for kasanova it was a full-on sport just sleeping with someone wasn’t enough for him he needed the drama like an 18th century version of the dentist system he perfected a formula for his ideal Affair Act One find a beautiful woman with a jealous lover act two play the hero save her from The Brute and seduce her act three get bored with her and set her up with another man maybe even the one she’d been with in the first place act four skip town and start
again in casanova’s writings he always paints his lovers as willing but the truth is almost certainly much darker for starters he almost exclusively targeted young insecure and emotionally vulnerable women telling them anything they wanted to hear if it meant they would sleep with him he and a group of men also certainly assaulted one woman at carnival though kasanova had the sheer arrogance to Proclaim their victim was willing while many of the stories about him portrayed these relationships as consensual and romantic the truth is far more disturbing in St Petersburg at 40 years old he purchased a 12-year-old girl as his slave 10 years later he assaulted the daughter of one of his former lovers today Casanova May imply a great lover of women but the real man has himself for all his charm and bravado was a predator plain and simple unsurprisingly kasanova fathered too many illegitimate children to keep count
this got dangerous in 1761 when he claims he almost took a woman named leonilda as his mistress just before he brought her into his bedroom he found out that she was actually his daughter and pulled back from the affair but the worst wasn’t over years later kasanova visited them again leonildo mother revealed revealed that their daughter had married yet her husband couldn’t have children that’s when she made a shocking request she begged kasanova to impregnate his own daughter and he actually did it that’s right if we are to believe his writings kasanova fathered his own grandson if you’ve enjoyed these stories don’t forget to show some love by hitting that like button and subscribing to our Channel stay tuned because we’ll be back with more incredible narratives soon thanks for joining us today and until next time but
