Random Raunchy Stories About Giacomo Casanova, History's Most Notorious Playboy (14 items)

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  (#4) He Tried to Help A Young Woman Get An Abortion And Then Seduced Her

  In 1759, Casanova had gone to Paris, where he was up to his usual scheming and merriment among high society. While there, he re-acquainted himself with the intelligent, beautiful Guistiniana Wynne, a young Venetian woman who was caught up in a passionate affair with his friend, Andrea Memmo, son of one of Venice's leading families. Wynne reached out to her Casanova because she had a problem: she was five months pregnant with Memmo's baby, and such a fact would ruin her reputation. Since marriage between them was out of the question - Memmo's patrician family vehemently opposed the match - Wynne felt she had no choice but to terminate the pregnancy. So she turned to Casanova to help her with the act.

  Abortion was illegal and dangerous in 18th-century France, and so both Casanova and Wynne took on a great risk. But they forged ahead with their plans. They met at a masquerade, so as not to arouse suspicion, and left the ball for a few hours to visit the midwife who would assist. To Wynne's frustration, the attempt did not work. She pleaded with Casanova to find another way.

  After reading of an ointment that would bring on an abortion, Casanova then convinced Wynne to sleep with him - he claimed he would apply a special ointment to his penis, and through intercourse it could be applied directly inside her vagina. Unsurprisingly, this method did not work either.

  Without any other options, Guistiniana Wynne had no choice but to flee to a convent, where she discreetly gave birth to her child.
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  (#8) He Fell Head Over Heels For An Actress Who Pretended To Be A Castrato

  Around 1745, Casanova attended a dinner in which a young castrato was performing. A castrato was essentially a young male singer whose testicles had been removed to preserve his high voice. This castrato was called "Bellino," and he captivated Casanova. The young Venetian mused that Bellino was actually a woman - and after a game of identity revelation, he was proven correct. 

  Bellino was actually a young actress in disguise. She claimed to disguise herself as a contralto to get roles on stage that were not available to women. Though Casanova refers to her as Teresa Lanti, historians guess that she might have been Teresa Landi, Artemesia Lanti, or Angiola Calori, all of whom ended up on the London stage. Casanova and his Bellino began an affair that ultimately produced a child, Casanova's illegitimate son Cesarino. 
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  (#12) His Landlady Brought A Suit Against Him For Impregnating Her Daughter

  Casanova spent two years in Paris. From 1750-1752, he devoted himself to learning French, meeting important people, and getting himself into one scrape after another in one of the most debauched cities in Europe.

  Casanova - probably unwisely - was having a brief affair with the daughter of his landlady, Madame Quinson. The teenaged Mimi would come to Casanova's room on her own volition, he emphasized, and they would pass the time in one another's embrace. When Mimi became pregnant, her mother brought a suit against the young Venetian. The court ultimately dismissed the charge.
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  (#9) He Assumed A New Identity To Escape His Creditors In Paris

  While in exile in France in 1757, Casanova introduced a lottery system to France. The scheme - which relied on his first-rate mathematical abilities - netted Casanova wealth and access to the upper echelons of French society. He met everyone from Madame de Pompadour - the principal royal mistress at the court of King Louis XV - to Voltaire and other luminaries of the Enlightenment. But Casanova was nothing if not unsnobbish with his company - at the same time, he cavorted with working girls, dancers, and actresses. Soon, Casanova had squandered his wealth and drifted into debt. 

  In 1760, he fled Paris to escape his creditors and began to roam around Europe under a new name: Chevalier de Seingalt. He spent the next 14 years jumping from one scandal to the next as he roved his way across the continent, from London to St. Petersburg.
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  (#3) Casanova Became A Celebrity for His Daring Prison Break

  Casanova's lifestyle attracted attention wherever he went, and police organizations across Europe meticulously recorded his activities - he was, for all intents and purposes, an outlaw who routinely escaped one city for another.

  In 1755, his scandals caught up with him, and Casanova was arrested by Venice's infamous Coucil of Ten on a charge of indecency and blasphemy. Without trial, Casanova was unceremoniously thrown into prison. Though he was fortunate enough to be imprisoned in the Doge's palace, Casanova had no intention of serving his full five-year sentence. So, he flew the coop.

  After weeks of labor, he filed an iron bar into a spike. He used it to create a hole through the roof or floor of his cell and escaped with the help of his prison-mate, a monk. They fled Venice in a gondola on the canal. Casanova sought refuge in Paris. He did not return to his beloved Venice for 18 long years.

  It was said that Casanova and his accomplice's prison-break was the first time anyone had escaped from the Doge's Palace. His escape from prison brought him small fame, which no doubt served him well during his long exile from Venice. 
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  (#7) He Lost His Virginity To A Pair Of Sisters

  When Casanova was 17, he was in the process of studying to join the Church. But his nocturnal activities were anything but appropriate for a future man of the cloth. He lost his virginity one night to two Venetian sisters, 16-year-old Nanetta and 15-year-old Marta Savorgnan, themselves virgins. 

  Though Casanova remembered his first tryst with fondness for the rest of his life, that fondness was not shared with at least one of the sisters. Marta entered a convent instead of marrying and prayed for Casanova's salvation.

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