This month marks 300 years since the birth of Giacomo Casanova – and the beginning of a reputation so prolific that his name would go on to be defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as “a man who ...

The food will be rustic — a creative play on traditional Italian cuisine. I want to bring my own twist and flair to it, and ...

In “Casanova,” director Lasse Hallstrom turns his genial eye on one of history’s most famous seducers, Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, the legendary woman-chasing diplomat, soldier, spy and ...

Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius By Laurence Bergreen Simon & Schuster 502 pages, $32.50 Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798), was more than a Venetian seducer. To his compeers in 18th ...

Giacomo Casanova was born 300 years ago in Venice, then the illicit pleasure capital of Europe, to two poor actors. The philanderer boasted about a selection of his sexcapades including threesomes ...

Discussed in this essay: Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova, by Leo Damrosch. Yale University Press. 432 pages. $35. In Adepts in Self-Portraiture, a 1928 study of the autobiographies ...

Casanova: "Masterpiece Theatre" presentation. Starring Peter O Toole and David Tennant. Part 1, 9 p.m. Sunday, Part 2, 9 p.m. Oct. 15, with encore performances through Oct. 17, on KQED. When did ...

Giacomo Casanova, who lived from 1725 to 1798, was a lawyer, a writer, an adventurer, a gambler and a scoundrel who found himself on the wrong side of the law.

Giacomo Casanova's name has come down to us as a synonym for a callous seducer. But Milwaukee Ballet's new production of "Casanova" humanizes the 18th century Venetian adventurer and memoirist, ...

This month marks 300 years since the birth of Giacomo Casanova – and the beginning of a reputation so prolific that his name would go on to be defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as “a man who ...