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Italian adventurer (1725-1798) who spent most of his life traveling through Europe meeting the famous men and women of his time; he is probably best known for his 'Memoirs,' which concerned his many love affairs. ALS in Italian, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.5 x 9, January 11, 1790. Handwritten letter to Count Antonio Collalto ('Your Excellency, my Beloved Patron'), thanking him for a recent letter and commenting on his interest in "the election of Counselor to your Excellency of Count Odoardo, your dignified son. An appointment which grants a noble and wise member to the senate." He then refers to Prince Ruspoli and makes an amusing comment, "considering that Bacchus and Mars have never been my favorite divinities."
Casanova then expresses contempt for the French writer Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, referring to false news of his death: "I have received today the news that the bestial Mirabeau, chief of the rebels assassins who dethroned the Christian King, is dead as a result of the wounds received on a duel. This death distresses me because I had the hope of meeting him somewhere, kill him and watch him die. He is an infamous writer who has dishonoured crowned heads and famous writers, and among them our illustrious Abbot Boskovitch who he treats as an ignorant." Before concluding, Casanova comments on the Emperor's health: "I wish that His Majesty the Emperor and King will recover his lost health and that he will enjoy it for long without having any further troubles, surrounded by his loyal servants, listening to the good advices he receives from the wise people who abound in his court." In fine condition, with some minor edge staining.
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