Casanova and Enlightenment Spawn Portugal and the Balearic Islands

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Casanova and Enlightenment Spawn Portugal and the Balearic IslandsGiacomo Casanova (1725 1798) was born the son of a moderately poor acting family at a time when the stage carried enormous social stigma. Yet in his own lifetime he achieved celebrity across Europe, rubbing shoulders with numerous of the eighteenth centurys greatest men and women, from Frederick the Great to Catherine the Great, from Voltaire to Albrecht von Haller, from Pope Benedict XIV to Pope Clement XIII. It was a fame that had little to do with