To mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of Giacomo Casanova (2 April 1725 \u2013 4 June 1798), the Fondazione Giorgio Cini is taking part in the city\u2019s celebrations with a major double exhibition entitled Casanova, Venezia e l\u2019Europa. The aim of the catalogue is to bring out a complex and multidisciplinary portrait of one of the most iconic figures in the history of Venice, who played a leading role over the last century of the existence of the Serenissima.<\/p>\n
A reading of Casanova that goes beyond the usual imagery, the \u2018myth\u2019 consolidated in the interpretative tradition that surrounds him. A complex character, Casanova travelled from Venice throughout Europe during a historical period of rapid cultural and political change, in which a vision of European society pervaded by uncertainty, tension and increasingly free and stratified cultural debate was taking shape.<\/p>\n
In Casanova\u2019s writings, we find many of the contradictions and drives for change that Europe is experiencing today. An original reinterpretation encouraging us to view the past as a witness to the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of Giacomo Casanova (2 April 1725 \u2013 4 June 1798), the Fondazione Giorgio Cini is taking part in the city\u2019s celebrations with a major double exhibition entitled Casanova, Venezia e l\u2019Europa. The aim of the catalogue is to bring out a complex and multidisciplinary portrait of one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":121335,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_authors":[],"cini_tax_pub_cat":[54],"cini_tax_collections":[],"cini_tax_institutes":[],"cini_tax_publishers":[],"class_list":["post-121062","cini_publications","type-cini_publications","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cini_tax_pub_cat-catalogues"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n