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72 debt on his shoulders, which from time to time he ought to find heavy. He does not deserve a worse punishment. To-day, in the seventy-third year of my life, my only desire is to live in peace and to be far from any person who might imagine that he has rights over my moral liberty, for it is impossible that any kind of tyranny should not coincide with this imagination." Early in February, 1798, Casanova was taken sick with a very grave bladder trouble of which he died after suffering for three-and-a-half months. On the 16th February Zaguri wrote: "I note with the greatest sorrow the blow which has afflicted you." On the 31st March, after having consulted with a Prussian doctor, Zaguri sent a box of medicines and he wrote frequently until the end. On the 20th April Elisa von der Recke, whom Casanova had met, some years before, at the chateau of the Prince de Ligne at Teplitz, having returned to Teplitz, wrote: "Your letter, my friend, has deeply affected me. Although myself ill, the first fair day which permits me to go out will find me at your side." On the 27th, Elisa, still bedridden, wrote that the Count de Montboisier and his wife were looking forward to visiting Casanova. On the 6th May she wrote, regretting that she was unable to send some crawfish soup, but that the rivers were too high for the peasants to secure the crawfish. "The Montboisier family, Milady Clark, my children and myself have all made vows for your recovery." On the 8th, she sent bouillon and madeira. On the 4th June, 1798, Casanova died. His nephew, Carlo Angiolini was with him at the time. He was buried in the churchyard of Santa Barbara at Dux. The exact location of his grave is uncertain, but a tablet, placed against the outside wall of the church reads:
73 JAKOB CASANOVA Venedig 1725 Dux 1798
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1 Spanish Passions: Old Age and Dea
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3 treads the grave measures of the
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5 knowledge of the world. Everythin
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7 the wig short and chestnut-brown.
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9 Lorenzo Da Ponte, known above all
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11 Among those of the first class,
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13 26th November 1781. A Report con
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15 is known other than that which s
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17 Abano for those who do not come
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19 "I am very sensible, Monsieur, o
Page 21 and 22: 21 PART THE SECOND VIENNA-PARIS I 1
Page 23 and 24: 23 and eating like a wolf. On the 3
Page 25 and 26: 25 "S. E. Pietro Zaguri sent to me
Page 27 and 28: 27 III VIENNA On the 29th November,
Page 29 and 30: 29 would never have been written. T
Page 31 and 32: 31 19th May 1784. "I see, to my gre
Page 33 and 34: 33 Casanova did not reach this peri
Page 35 and 36: 35 "Giacomo Casanova, in love, to C
Page 37 and 38: 37 my lover, so just a request, so
Page 39 and 40: 39 PART THE THIRD DUX 1786-1798 I T
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
Page 49 and 50: 49 having known that I would not sa
Page 51 and 52: 51 In May 1793, Da Ponte wrote from
Page 53 and 54: 53 one raised the least difficulty
Page 55 and 56: 55 Waldstein laughed and said he wo
Page 57 and 58: 57 charming in every way, pretty as
Page 59 and 60: 59 In March 1797, this Henriette we
Page 61 and 62: 61 instant from its respective star
Page 63 and 64: 63 V PUBLICATIONS In 1786, Casanova
Page 65 and 66: 65 "I remained at Padua long enough
Page 67 and 68: 67 through being embroiled in a pis
Page 69 and 70: 69 see his conversation, on the sub
Page 71: 71 resulted in the loss of the firs
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