“Casanova Prepares for a Duel, May 5, 1766,” by Michael Garriga
Nov 20th, 2008 | By DefenestrationTell me why, O Lord, why I had to scurry and scramble escaping that Venetian prison to come all the way to Poland-Poland!-to be murdered by a lifelong knight, the Grand Butler to the Crown, Count Colonel Franciszek Ksawery Branicki, a name that sounds like a child’s careless scribbling? A man who has wounded his
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