Volume VI Part 103 (1/2)
Doctor Gozzi, his former teacher at Padua, now becoe of the Valley, and his sister Betting ”When I went to pay him a visitshe breathed her last in my arms, in 1776, twenty-four hours after ela Toselli, his first passion In 1758 this girl married the advocate Francesobrnaba Rizzotti, and in the following year she gave birth to a daughter, Maria Rizzotti (later married to a M Kaiser) who lived at Vienna and whose letters to Casanova were preserved at Dux
C---- C----, the young girl whose love affair with Casanova became involved with that of the nun M---- M---- Casanova found her in Venice ”aand poorly off”
The dancing girl Binetti, who assisted Casanova in his flight froain in London in 1763, and as the cause of his duel with Count Branicki at Warsaw in 1766 She danced frequently at Venice between 1769 and 1780
The good and indulgent Mme Manzoni, ”of whom I shall have to speak very often”
The patricians Andrea Meuri were personages of considerable standing in the Republic and who remained his constant friends Andrea Memmo was the cause of the embarrassment in which Mlle X---- C---- V---- found herself in Paris and which Casanova vainly endeavored to re specific, the 'aroph of Paracelsus'
It was at the house of these friends that Casanova became acquainted with the poet, Lorenzo Da Ponte ”I made his acquaintance,” says the latter, in his own Meuri and the house of Me conversation, accepting fro their eyes, on account of his genius, upon the perverse parts of his nature”
Lorenzo Da Ponte, known above all as Mozart's librettist, and whose youtheaten haed to flee from Venice in 1777, to escape the punishment of the Tribunal of Blasphely of his compatriot and yet, as M Rava notes, in the numerous letters he wrote Casanova, and which were preserved at Dux, he proclaims his friendshi+p and adain at Padua in 1777, with her daughter who ”had becoirl; and our acquaintance was renewed in the tenderest hter of Mny
Barbara, who attracted Casanova's attention at Trieste, in 1773, while he was frequenting a family named Leo, but tohoirl, on uessed s and had been amused by my foolish restraint”
At Pesaro, the Jewess Leah, hoular experiences at Ancona in 1772
II -- RELATIONS WITH THE INQUISITORS
Soon after reaching Venice, Casanova learned that the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, following the example of other German princes, wished a Venetian correspondent for his private affairs Through soht obtain this s for the position he applied to the Secretary of the Tribunal for per came of this, and Casanova obtained no definite employment until 1776
Early in 1776, Casanova entered the service of the Tribunal of Inquisitors as an ”occasional Confidant,” under the fictitious na his address as ”at the Casino of S E Marco Dandolo”
In October 1780, his appointiven a salary of fifteen ducats a month This, with the six sequins of life-incoave hihty-four lires--about seventy-four U S dollars--from 1780 until his break with the Tribunal at the end of 1781
In the Archives of Venice are preserved forty-eight letters fro the Reports he wrote as a ”Confidant,” all in the sa as the manuscript of the Memoirs The Reportsto co to the publicthose of the first class, we find:
A Report relating to Casanova's success in having a changefro Casanova's residence at Trieste in 1773, he received encouragement and the sum of one hundred ducats from the Tribunal
A Report, the 8th Septe the rumored project of the future Emperor of Austria to invade Dalmatia after the death of Maria Theresa Casanova stated he had received this information from a Frenchman, M Salz de Chalabre, whom he had known in Paris twenty years before This M Chalabre [printed Calabre] was the pretended nephew of M man was as like her as two drops of water, but she did not find that a sufficient reason for avowing herself his mother” The boy was, in fact, the son of Mether for a long time
A Report, the 12th of Deceard to a project of the court of Vienna forto facilitate coary For this inquiry, Casanova received sixteen hundred lires, his expenditures a to seven hundred and sixty-six lires
A Report, May-July 1779, of an excursion in thethe commercial relations of the Pontifical States with the Republic of Venice At Forli, in the course of this excursion, Casanova visited the dancing-girl Binetti For this ht sequins
A Report, January 1780, re carried out by a certain Marrazzani for the [Prussian] regiarding a so-called Baldassare Rossetti, a Venetian subject living at Trieste, whose activities and projects were of a nature to prejudice the co the Reports relating to public morals may be noted: