Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova was a Venetian adventurer, writer, gambler and sometime diplomat whose memoir, Histoire de ma vie, records a life spent across eighteenth-century Europe. His imprisonment and escape from the Venetian Leads, changing fortunes and extensive social connections made him a witness to courts, salons and urban society.

Tracy Chevalier’s The Glassmaker places Giacomo Casanova within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, political ambition and government, and crime, espionage and covert power.