tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post2942947728460397859..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: On Casanova and His DisturbancesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-51611095226079005622014-09-28T10:28:53.753-04:002014-09-28T10:28:53.753-04:00Bob, thanks for this extract. I'm going to hav...Bob, thanks for this extract. I'm going to have to pick up his memoirs now.Robert What?https://www.blogger.com/profile/03863449539859132763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-76021060507651740982014-09-27T16:02:48.575-04:002014-09-27T16:02:48.575-04:00After months without a recall, however, he wrote a...<i>After months without a recall, however, he wrote a letter of appeal directly to the Inquisitors. At last, he received his long sought permission and burst into tears upon reading 'We, Inquisitors of State, for reasons known to us, give Giacomo Casanova a free safe-conduct ... empowering him to come, go, stop, and return, hold communication wheresoever he pleases without let or hindrance. So is our will.' Casanova was permitted to return to Venice in September 1774 after eighteen years of exile. </i><br /><br />Wait, <i>what?!</i> <br /><br />Exile? Permission to return to Venice? I thought "border control" was something that only evil conservatives dreamed up in the 1990's.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-42249555667242525482014-09-27T15:50:42.246-04:002014-09-27T15:50:42.246-04:00He lived an interesting life and most people don&#...He lived an interesting life and most people don't.<br /><br />And he is remembered, and most men are not.<br /><br />Life is not meant to be lived untroubled and unremarked.<br /><br />And so many men have their lives wrecked in today's society by one woman, than many, by playing it safe.<br /><br /><br /><br />Ras Al Ghulnoreply@blogger.com