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68 Venetian State Inquisitors. For this purpose, I established myself at Trieste where, two years later, I obtained it. This was the 14th September 1774. My return to Venice after nineteen years was the most pleasant moment of my life. "In 1782, I became embroiled with the entire body of the Venetian nobility. At the beginning of 1783, I voluntarily left the ungrateful country and went to Vienna. Six months later I went to Paris with the intention of establishing myself there, but my brother, who had lived there for twenty-six years, made me forget my interests in favor of his. I rescued him from the hands of his wife and took him to Vienna where Prince Kaunitz engaged him to establish himself. He is still there, older than I am by two years. "I placed myself in the service of M. Foscarini, Venetian Ambassador, to write dispatches. Two years later, he died in my arms, killed by the gout which mounted into his chest. I then set out for Berlin in the hope of securing a position with the Academy, but, half way there, Count Waldstein stopped me at Teplitz and led me to Dux where I still am and where, according to all appearances, I shall die. "This is the only summary of my life that I have written, and I permit any use of it which may be desired. "'Non erubesco evangelium'. "This 17th November 1797. "Jacques Casanova." In reference to Casanova's ironic remark about his escape from England,
69 see his conversation, on the subject of "dishonor," with Sir Augustus Hervey at London in 1763, which is given in the Memoirs. VII LAST DAYS AT DUX Scattered through the Memoirs are many of Casanova's thoughts about his old age. Some were possibly incorporated in the original text, others possibly added when he revised the text in 1797. These vary from resignation to bitterness, doubtless depending on Casanova's state of mind at the moment he wrote them: "Now that I am seventy-two years old, I believe myself no longer susceptible of such follies. But alas! that is the very thing which causes me to be miserable." "I hate old age which offers only what I already know, unless I should take up a gazette." "Age has calmed my passions by rendering them powerless, but my heart has not grown old and my memory has kept all the freshness of youth." "No, I have not forgotten her [Henriette]; for even now, when my head is covered with white hair, the recollection of her is still a source of happiness for my heart." "A scene which, even now, excites my mirth."
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1 Spanish Passions: Old Age and Dea
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9 Lorenzo Da Ponte, known above all
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Page 25 and 26: 25 "S. E. Pietro Zaguri sent to me
Page 27 and 28: 27 III VIENNA On the 29th November,
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Page 33 and 34: 33 Casanova did not reach this peri
Page 35 and 36: 35 "Giacomo Casanova, in love, to C
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Page 41 and 42: 41 I have been disconsolated at rec
Page 43 and 44: 43 always will be, your true and si
Page 45 and 46: 45 oldest had the impudence to put
Page 47 and 48: 47 new-born babe and would wish you
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Page 51 and 52: 51 In May 1793, Da Ponte wrote from
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Page 57 and 58: 57 charming in every way, pretty as
Page 59 and 60: 59 In March 1797, this Henriette we
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Page 63 and 64: 63 V PUBLICATIONS In 1786, Casanova
Page 65 and 66: 65 "I remained at Padua long enough
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Page 73: 73 JAKOB CASANOVA Venedig 1725 Dux
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