Casanova: more than a serial seducer
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A Young Man of Talent, Who Was Not Seducing?
He had a kind sympathy for other people as not t seducing. Women and older men took him up because they enjoyed him so much. One reason he always hit it off with people was he actually wasn't faking it. He ashad a degree from the university of pada, a very distinguished university. There was not then one in venice. And he was going to go into the church, because for a young man of talent, that was probably the best route. A church was very wealthy then. So he went to rome to prepare for the priesthood, and met a pope and seemed to be doing very well. Then he messed up in various ways and was told never
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