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 　　In the Western world, there is such a household name, adventurers admire him, men yearn for him, women underestimate him, and historians and writers study him. He reminds you of Rabelais' giants, who drink the river of human knowledge and are proficient in many kinds of learning; he reminds you of Don Quixote's absurd career as a ranger, but his adventure is far more The country inn is even more exciting to attack as a castle, indulge in rambling fantasies; he will remind you of the womanizer Don Juan, but he is by no means masquerading as admiration, shameless, playing tricks and seducing women into sex, but sincerely chasing women, Women also reciprocate him with genuine enthusiasm; he will remind you of great autobiographers such as Rousseau, but his autobiography, My Life, is not only a biography of an individual, but an entire century. Giants, Don Quixote, Don Juan and others live in a fictional world of literature, while he lives in a real historical century. His life itself is poetry and fiction, even more splendid and wonderful than poetry and fiction. He is Casanova.

　　

　　Wandering in the Quartet

　　

　　The second half of the 18th century was an era when the Seven Years' War had ended, the turbulent French Revolution had yet to come, and the whole of Europe was relatively calm for the time being. Synonyms for calm are monotony, boredom, and tedium, the most unbearable things for European courts and royal families. In order to pass the time, they began to be patrons of the arts, seeking pleasure in theatre, dance, music, painting; they sought pleasure in their minds, in fencing, hunting, alchemy: it was a sensual, indulgent The age of boundlessness, this is an age when everyone wants to be deceived. As a result, all kinds of wandering entertainers, warlocks, magicians, rogue liars, and insane people who can provide people with fun began to appear, displaying their kinky skills and showing off their "talents". The small closed courts scattered in all corners of Europe provided a vast living space for their existence, and they wandered from one court to another court to swindle everywhere.

　　Casanova was born for such an era, and such an era is the stage for him to exert his fists. He was born into a family of actors in Venice, the eldest of sixteen children. The special family provided him with a good education and at the same time gave him the talent to perform well. He regards the world as a stage for self-performance. In childhood and youth, Casanova showed a strong thirst for knowledge and a strong memory. His language skills were amazing and he was proficient in French, Italian, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish He has in-depth research on chemistry, medicine, astronomy, history, philosophy, literature, etc. He is good at sermons, debates, speeches, and of course lying. He is good at music, dance, fencing, equestrian and other elegant things that nobles are engaged in. sports. He is an encyclopedic figure of many talents. The writer Zweig said of him that he is almost a scholar, almost a poet, almost a philosopher, almost a gentleman.

　　In 1755, Casanova was arrested by the Venetian government on suspicion of espionage and imprisoned in the Doge's Prison. With his superhuman perseverance and extraordinary planning level, Casanova led several criminals and took a hostage successfully to escape from prison, and staged the Venice version of "The Shawshank Redemption". After more than two months of running away, he came to the big casino in Paris, ready to show his fists here. He introduced the lottery to France with great success, and was appointed by the government to spy abroad. But the ship he invested in was buried in the belly of the fish, leaving him with nothing to lose. In 1760, he called himself the Knight of Sengar, and in the same year he was canonized as a true knight by Pope Clement XIII of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1764, he met Frederick II, who was all-powerful in Europe and was warmly received by the Russian Empress Catherine. His life experience is too rich for our article to contain. The reason why he can keep going in and out of the major palaces and salons in Europe to make friends with all kinds of princes, ministers and celebrities is because of his "super big cheating" quality. In order to talk to anyone about anything, you can speak freely and laugh freely.

　　He has been constantly changing from the rich to the poor, from the sudden wealth to the impoverished, from the staggered to the upside-down. He was continually driven into exile, no country, no family, no faith, he never was. He didn't want to live a stable life, because it would only be a pain for him, he just wanted to wander around because that was his way of being. He advocates the freedom brought by this kind of life, and he does not succumb to things or things, and let loose, it seems that he has penetrated the true meaning of life.

　　

　　Strangers in Love

　　

　　Casanova is most talked about by later generations is his story with a woman, he was dubbed "the greatest lover in history", and even his name was included in the dictionary and had a specific reference. His charm comes from his legendary experience and extraordinary talent, but also from his perfect appearance. The creator loves him very much. Casanova is tall, sturdy, handsome, and energetic. He is energetic, passionate, daring to pursue, and dare to take risks in the world. He is the hero Hercules, he It's a Titan, he's a god on earth. When it comes to chasing women, he is the Western version of Ximen Qing, but he is different from Ximen Qing. The appearance of the object he pursues does not need to be like a fish or a wild goose, he does not need to be born in a deep house, and he does not need to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, whether it is a lady or a village girl, whether it is a girl or a prostitute. A woman, as long as she is a woman, can make him radiant and invigorated.

　　How many women did Casanova have in his lifetime? We don't know for sure, some people count 116 through his biography, others say more than 160, and these women infected him four times with syphilis. If you simply make a judgment and say that he is a complete disciple, it would be a bit unfair to him. Once Casanova falls in love with a woman, he will give up all pretense and hypocrisy, he will unabashedly reveal his desires to the other party, he will go all out and rack his brains, he will bravely pursue, Even if the family goes bankrupt. In such an age of lust, the number of Casanova women may not be amazing, but the strange thing is that the women he hunted and hunted would not feel cheated and annoyed. He truly loves women, and those women return him with sincere and passionate affection, albeit briefly. Although Casanova touches women's bodies, he never breaks into their lives and spiritual worlds. He will not bring depravity, guilt consciousness and life tragedy to women. On the contrary, he will replay women's bleak lives. Brilliant. Women will continue to live on the track they should, and "Red Apricot Out of the Wall" is just an episode with the luster of painted pottery in life. Some people say that every time Casanova walks through a body, she teaches women what true freedom is and what is individual liberation. This is also the biggest difference between Casanova and Don Juan. Casanova sees women as sources of pleasure, while Don Juan sees women as incarnations of evil that arouses desire. The relationship between Casanova and the woman has no moral element, so the chase appears simple and interesting to both parties.

　　of course there are exceptions. When he was 24 years old, Casanova met a woman who made him sleepless. At a cocktail party, he met Helite, who escaped her husband's abuse. He got the beauty, emotion, wisdom and aristocratic atmosphere that all lovers should have from Helite, and he vowed to "share happiness and misfortune with her forever". However, Heilit returned to Provence, France, and the romance of only three months made Casanova unforgettable. He maintained a correspondence with this woman who no longer met for more than 20 years. Later, after Casanova was expelled by the French King Louis XIV, when he was wandering through Provence, he accidentally came to Heilit's manor. Harriet, now a widow, took him in but did not meet him. When Casanova set off on the journey again, he received a letter from Heilit with only the simple and rich word "Casanova". Even in his impoverished old age, the woman hunter still had a platonic romance with a young nun who seemed to have a grasp on love, saying that true happiness comes from memory. He seems to have practiced this sentence all his life: where there is life, there will be women.

　　

　　My whole life

　　

　　In the course of years of adventure and wandering, Casanova

The creations are also quite abundant. He once formed a theater company, wrote the tragedy "Zoroastrow", published "The History of Poland", published the political essay "The Difference between the Republic of Venice and the Netherlands", translated Homer's epic "Iliad" into Italian, created The utopian novels "Edward and Elizabeth or Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Twenty Days Talk", and even "Hexahedron" and "Cube-Geometry Demonstration" and other mathematical research works in Dresden. These works of his are more extensive, but they are still a long way from entering the ranks of classics.

　　into the late 18th century. The Bastille was taken, the head of Louis XVI fell, the Jacobins appeared, the little Corsicans were eager to try, the world suddenly became incomprehensible, and the golden age of Casanova was also Gone forever: Casanova is a living person, and he cannot escape the natural law of birth, aging, illness, and death. He gradually lost his youth. His muscles were slack, his face was haggard, and his teeth fell out, making him a waste that people could not avoid. . Fortunately, in the early years, Lord Wallenstein of Bohemia - the tragic hero in Schiller's trilogy - took him in as a librarian at Dax Castle. When all the nobles' doors shut him out, all women no longer open their hearts to him, and all servants can bully and laugh at him, he begins to relive his glorious adventure with words. Casanova began to write his half autobiographical half memoir, "My Life", which was the most immortal event in his life, otherwise he was just a passing visitor to this world.

　　Casanova is a person who can't stand loneliness. When he was left out in the cold, he used words as an antiseptic of loneliness to drive away the monotonous and lonely life. He spent nine years writing "My Life". A giant system. In the process of writing, he re-bathed in love, he re-deceived, and re-proved his vitality that does not dry up. He never expected his book to be published, just to himself, revealing his naked desires, his unbridled indulgence. "My Life" shows the lives of people in different countries, different courts, different classes, and different occasions. In terms of digging and depicting the hearts and spirits of characters, he cannot compare with Goethe, Schiller and other great writers. He recorded what he saw and heard like a camera, he just presented the objective world he saw without making subjective judgments. He left us messy and cluttered. There is no moral concept or aesthetic meaning in his mind, but he presents us the life history and customs history of European society in the 18th century. In this 5,000-page text world, we see the fields of economy, culture, life, customs and so on. Inside is just around the corner. This work inadvertently created biographies for popes and kings, writers and thinkers, businessmen and judges, liars and gamblers, women of all shapes and sizes, in which you can see their joys and sorrows, love and hatred. My Life is a gallery of people and customs, an essential desk book for scholars engaged in eighteenth-century studies.

　　Casanova said in a letter to Glimani before his death: "My Life" will be translated into all languages ​​and circulated everywhere. In 1820, his biography was published in Israel, but due to the particularity of its content, it was inevitable to be deleted and tampered with. Casanova, a homeless man, began to wander under the pen of playwrights and novelists, and he created no less than a hundred works based on him. Zweig and others made a biography for it, and Fellini, Holstrom and others put it on the screen. "No novelist and thinker has ever created a more romantic story than Casanova's life, and a more bizarre character than Casanova's character", because they use fiction to write about life, Casavano, on the other hand, used his life to write novels. But both his works and his life are a rich source of inspiration for artists and researchers, and an inexhaustible driving force for creation.

　　Casanova was a legend, is still a legend, and will be a legend in the future.