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Aldington's Casanova found Henriette -the one real love of his life-in a Venetian canal, where she was drowning. He rescued her, but before he could even sear her lips with a kiss she was whisked home. When he finally found her again she was in a hotel bed. After exchanging commonplaces, they set up housekeeping without benefit of clergy. But one day, for no apparent reason, Casanova was arrested...
...ROMANCE OF CASANOVA (344 pp.) -Richard Aldington-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
Flirtatiously billed as "the story Casanova didn't dare to tell," Romance actually has no basis in the 18th Century swoonster's Memoirs. In place of truth, Author Aldington offers learned period sets (descriptions of settecento fortune telling, bills of fare, gambling), plenty of escapes and japes, ructions and seductions...
Fearing the wrath of their separate employers, they fled to Switzerland by separate routes. But Casanova was waylaid by a lady, arrived a day too late. Austrian agents had done away with Henriette. On a window in her room he found scratched her fond farewell: "Adieu my love Henriette...
Academicians were scandalized when Artist Goya found favor with King Charles IV of Spain. An accomplished duelist, harpsichordist and guitar player, as well as an unrivaled Casanova, Goya delighted the ladies and enraged the courtiers. His intuition was as astonishing as his lack of tact. "You look like the kind of man who goes about [burning] harmless prostitutes," he once remarked to an amiable old monk, who later became a prominent member of the Inquisition. His amorous ferocity was equally pronounced. "If I loved a woman, I shouldn't hesitate to use intimidation if all other methods failed...