The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 30: Old Age and Death

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Giacomo Casanova. The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 30: Old Age and Death

APPENDIX AND SUPPLEMENT

PART THE FIRST

VENICE 1774-1782 CASANOVA'S RETURN TO VENICE

II. RELATIONS WITH THE INQUISITORS

III. FRANCESCA BUSCHINI

IV. PUBLICATIONS

V. MLLE. X . . . C . . . V.

VI. LAST DAYS AT VENICE

PART THE SECOND VIENNA-PARIS

I. 1783-1785. TRAVELS IN 1783

II. PARIS

III. VIENNA

IV. LETTERS FROM FRANCESCA

V. LAST DAYS AT VIENNA

PART THE THIRD DUX 1786-1798

I. THE CASTLE AT DUX

II. LETTERS FROM FRANCESCA

III. CORRESPONDENCE AND ACTIVITIES

IV. CORRESPONDENCE WITH JEAN-FERDINAND OPIZ

V. PUBLICATIONS

VI. SUMMARY of MY LIFE

VII. LAST DAYS AT DUX

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Thus Casanova ended his Memoirs, concluding his narrative with his sojourn at Trieste, in January 1774, where he had remained, except for a few excursions, since the 15th November 1772. He was forty-nine years of age. Since his unfortunate experiences in England, the loss of his fortune and the failure of his efforts to obtain congenial and remunerative employment in Germany or Russia, he had come to concentrate his efforts on a return to his native city.

Of his faithful friends, the nobles Bragadin, Barbaro and Dandolo, the first had died in 1767, having gone into debt "that I might have enough," sending Casanova, from his death-bed, a last gift of a thousand crowns. Barbaro who had died also, in 1771, left Casanova a life-income of six sequins a month. The survivor, Dandolo, was poor, but until his death, he also gave Casanova a monthly provision of six sequins. However, Casanova was not without influential friends who might not only obtain a pardon from the State Inquisitors but also assist him to employment; and, in fact, it was through such influence as that wielded by the Avogador Zaguri and the Procurator Morosini, that Casanova received his pardon, and later, a position as "Confidant," or Secret Agent, to the Inquisitors at Venice.

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December 1776. A Report on the seditious character of a ballet called "Coriolanus." The back of this report is inscribed: "The impressario of S. Benedetto, Mickel de l'Agata, shall be summoned immediately; it has been ordered that he cease, under penalty of his life, from giving the ballet Coriolanus at the theater. Further, he is to collect and deposit all the printed programmes of this ballet."

December 1780. A Report calling to the attention of the Tribunal the scandalous disorders produced in the theaters when the lights were extinguished.

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