Volume VI Part 104 (2/2)

”I am very sensible, Monsieur, of the distinction which comes to me from your approbation of my little pamphlet The interest of the ained for it the tolerance and favorable welcoood Venetians It is to your politeness in particular, Monsieur, that I believe is due the marked success which my work has had with you I thank you for the book which you sentyou in advance for the pleasure it will give me Be persuaded of my esteem for yourself and for your talents And I have the honor to be, Monsieur

”Your very hu Casanova's papers at Dux was a page headed ”Souvenir,” dated the 2nd Septe the staircase, the Prince de Rose was dead

This Prince de Rose was the nephew of Giustina”

Giustina died, after a long illness, at Padua, the 21st August 1791, at the age of fifty-four years and seven months

VI -- LAST DAYS AT VENICE

Toward the end of 1782, doubtless convinced that he could expect nothing more from the Tribunal, Casanova entered the service of the Marquis Spinola as a secretary Some years before, a certain Carletti, an officer in the service of the court of Turin, had won froer of two hundred and fifty sequins The existence of this debt seemed to have completely disappeared from the memory of the loser By means of the firm promise of a pecuniary recompense, Casanova intervened to obtain fro to Carletti His effort was successful; but instead of clinking cash, Carletti contented hiner caused a violent dispute, in the course of which Carlo Grimani, at whose house the scene took place, placed hi and imposed silence

The irascible Giacoe his bile, he found nothing less than to publish in the course of the ust, under the title of: 'Ne aia repulita', a libel in which Jean Carlo Gried under transparentembroiled the author with the entire body of the Venetian nobility

To allow the indignation against him to quiet down, Casanova went to pass some days at Trieste, then returned to Venice to put his affairs in order The idea of reco life alarht years,” he wrote, ”I could not go on foot inter at hand, and when I think of starting on the road to resuh at myself in the mirror”

PART THE SECOND -- VIENNA-PARIS

I -- 1783-1785

TRAVELS IN 1783

Casanova left Venice in January 1783, and went to Vienna

On the 16th April Elisabeth Catrolli wrote to him at Vienna:

”Dearest of friends,

”Your letter has given ret your departure I have but two sincere friends, yourself and Camerani I do not hope for more I could be happy if I could have at least one of you near me to whom I could confide my cruel anxieties

”To-day, I received fro e: I did not receive it, and I fear it has been lost

”Dear friend, when you reach Paris, clasp hiard to Chechina [Francesca Buschini] I would say that I have not seen her since the day I took her your letter Her irl; let that suffice; I will say no more”