Casanova: more than a serial seducer
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The Greatest Seducer of All Time
He invented a lottery for the french government that made him so rich he became poor. He was exiled from his native venice for 18 years, but ended up working for the same people who had incarcerated him. And finally spent his a dozen years in exile in a castle in bohemia where he had a job as a sort of librarian. Depressed, you now wishing he were young again. It sounds like a truly extraordinary life. There's so much more to it, perhaps, than what you might initially think.
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