Old Age and Death The Memoirs Of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt ...
Old Age and Death The Memoirs Of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt ... Old Age and Death The Memoirs Of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt ...
46 upset Casanova during his visit to London that he was actually on the point of committing suicide through sheer desperation. On the 20th September 1789, he wrote to the Princess Clari, sister of the Prince de Ligne: "I am struck by a woman at first sight, she completely ravishes me, and I am perhaps lost, for she may be a Charpillon." There were, among the papers at Dux, two letters from Marianne Charpillon, and a manuscript outlining the story of Casanova's relations with her and her family, as detailed in the Memoirs: With the story in mind, the letters from this girl, "the mistress, now of one, now of another," are of interest: "I know not, Monsieur, whether you forgot the engagement Saturday last; as for me, I remember that you consented to give us the pleasure of having you at dinner to-day, Monday, the 12th of the month. I would greatly like to know whether your ill-humor has left you; this would please me. Farewell, in awaiting the honor of seeing you. "Marianne de Charpillon." "Monsieur, "As I have a part in all which concerns you, I am greatly put out to know of the new illness which incommodes you; I hope that this will be so trifling that we will have the pleasure of seeing you well and at our house, to-day or to-morrow. "And, in truth, the gift which you sent me is so pretty that I know not how to express to you the pleasure it has given me and how much I value it; and I cannot see why you must always provoke me by telling me that it is my fault that you are filled with bile, while I am as innocent as a
47 new-born babe and would wish you so gentle and patient that your blood would become a true clarified syrup; this will come to you if you follow my advice. I am, Monsieur, "Your very humble servant, "[Marianne Charpillon] "Wednesday at six o'clock" On the 8th April, 1790, Zaguri wrote in reference to vertigo of which Casanova complained: "Have you tried riding horseback? Do you not think that is an excellent preservative? I tried it this last summer and I find myself very well." In 1790, Casanova had a conversation with the Emperor Joseph II at Luxemburg, on the subject of purchased nobility, which he reports in the Memoirs. This same year, attending the coronation of Leopold at Prague, Casanova met his grandson (and, probably, as he himself believed, his own son), the son of Leonilda, who was the daughter of Casanova and Donna Lucrezia, and who was married to the Marquis C . . . . In 1792, Leonilda wrote, inviting Casanova to "spend the remainder of my days with her." In February 1791, Casanova wrote to Countess Lamberg: "I have in my capitularies more than four hundred sentences which pass for aphorisms and which include all the tricks which place one word for another. One can read in Livy that Hannibal overcame the Alps by means of vinegar. No elephant ever uttered such a stupidity. Livy? Not at all. Livy was not a
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46<br />
upset <strong>Casanova</strong> during his visit to London that he was actually on the<br />
point of committing suicide through sheer desperation. On the 20th<br />
September 1789, he wrote to the Princess Clari, sister of the Prince de<br />
Ligne: "I am struck by a woman at first sight, she completely ravishes<br />
me, <strong>and</strong> I am perhaps lost, for she may be a Charpillon."<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were, among the papers at Dux, two letters from Marianne<br />
Charpillon, <strong>and</strong> a manuscript outlining the story of <strong>Casanova</strong>'s relations<br />
with her <strong>and</strong> her family, as detailed in the <strong>Memoirs</strong>: With the story in<br />
mind, the letters from this girl, "the mistress, now of one, now of<br />
another," are of interest:<br />
"I know not, Monsieur, whether you forgot the engagement Saturday last;<br />
as for me, I remember that you consented to give us the pleasure of<br />
having you at dinner to-day, Monday, the 12th of the month. I would<br />
greatly like to know whether your ill-humor has left you; this would<br />
please me. Farewell, in awaiting the honor of seeing you.<br />
"Marianne de Charpillon."<br />
"Monsieur,<br />
"As I have a part in all which concerns you, I am greatly put out to know<br />
of the new illness which incommodes you; I hope that this will be so<br />
trifling that we will have the pleasure of seeing you well <strong>and</strong> at our<br />
house, to-day or to-morrow.<br />
"And, in truth, the gift which you sent me is so pretty that I know not<br />
how to express to you the pleasure it has given me <strong>and</strong> how much I value<br />
it; <strong>and</strong> I cannot see why you must always provoke me by telling me that it<br />
is my fault that you are filled with bile, while I am as innocent as a
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