Volume VI Part 106 (2/2)
Evidently this sa letters written by ”Caton M” to Casanova in 1786
12th April 1786 ”You will infinitely oblige s about o to his house and, either he would prove that you had written it or I would have the honor of telling him that he is the most infamous traducer in the world I think that the lovely picture which you make of my future has not as much excuse as you may think, and, in spite of your science, you deceive yourself But just noill infore for yourself by this whether I deserve all the reproaches you made me in your last letter
It is two years since I came to know the Count de K; I could have loved hi to satisfy his desires
Some months afterward, I came to know the Count de M; he was not so handso a girl; I did everything for him, but I never loved hiiddinesses in a feords, I set everything right again with Kand got myself into a quarrel with M, then I left Kand returned to M, but at the house of the latter there was always an officer who pleased me more than both the two others and who sometimes conducted me to the house; then we found ourselves at the house of a friend, and it is of this same officer that I am ill So, my dear friend, that is all I do not seek to justify my past conduct; on the contrary, I knoell that I have acted badly I a away froain and am, with much love,
”Monsieur, your sincere
”Caton M ”
16th July 1786 ”I have spoken with the Abbe Da Ponte He invitedto tell me for you
I went there, but was received so coldly that I aain Also, Mlle Nanette affected an air of reserve and took at on herself to read me lessons on what she was pleased to calles Just noill tell you of a little trick which I played on you, which without doubt deserves so, little Kasper, whom you formerly loved, came to ask me for the address of her dear Monsieur de Casanova, so that she could write a very tender letter full of recollections I had too irl, as once the favorite of ave her the address she wished; but I addressed the letter to a city far from you Is it not, my dear friend, that you would like well to know the name of the city, so that you could secure the letter by posts But you can depend on my word that you will not know it until you have writtenme very humbly to indicate the place where the divine letter of the adorable object of your vows has gone You irl in whom the Emperor [Joseph II] interests himself, for it is known that, since your departure fro her French andher hioes to his house to thank him for his kindnesses to her, but I know not in ay she expresses herself
”Farewell, my dear friend Think sometimes of me and believe that I am your sincere friend”
On the 23rd April 1785, the a Casanova of a protector, probably leaving him without much money, and not in the best of health He applied for the position of secretary to Count Fabris, his fornolo, but without success Casanova then detero to Berlin in the hope of a place in the Academy On the 30th July he arrived at Bruen in Moravia, where his friend Maxi other letters of recommendation, a letter addressed to Jean-Ferdinand Opiz, Inspector of Finances and Banks at Czaslau, in which he wrote:
”A celebrated man, M Casanova, will deliver to you, ed for M this amiable and remarkable man, will mark an epoch in your life, be polite and friendly to him, 'quod ipsi facies in mei memoriam faciatis' Keep yourself well, write to me, and if you can direct him to some honest ust 1785, M Opiz wrote Count La about Casanova's visit:
”Your letter of the 30th, including your cards for my wife and myself, was delivered the first of this month by M Casanova He was very anxious to ain at Carlsbad But as soed to stop in Czaslau for two hours which he passed inhted Even in the short space of time in which I enjoyed his cohest consideration and of our love, a benevolent philosopher whose horeat expanse of our planet (and not Venice alone) and who values only the sI know absolutely no one at Carlsbad, so I sincerely regret being unable to reco to your desire He did not wish, on account of his haste, to pause even at Prague and, consequently, to deliver, at this ti”
PART THE THIRD -- DUX -- 1786-1798
I -- THE CASTLE AT DUX
It is uncertain how long Casanova reain the Polish nobleambled in Venice in 1746 ”As to Zawoiski, I did not tell him the story until I met him in Carlsbad old and deaf, forty years later” He did not return to Czaslau, but in September 1785 he was at Teplitz where he found Count Waldstein whom he accompanied to his castle at Dux
From this time onward he remained ale of the Count's library and given a pension of one thousand florins annually
Describing his visit to the castle in 1899, Arthur Sy: all Bohe, but this one was like a royal palace Set there in the midst of the town, after the Boheardens, as if it were in the h room after room, corridor after corridor; everywhere there were pictures, everywhere portraits of Wallenstein, and battle scenes in which he led on his troops The library, which was fored, by Casanova, and which remains as he left it, contains some twenty-five thousand volumes, some of them of considerable valueThe library for of the castle The first rooed, in a decorative way, covering the ceiling and the walls with strange patterns The second room contains pottery, collected by Casanova's Waldstein on his Eastern travels The third room is full of curious s in ivory Finally, we come to the library, contained in the two innermost rooms The book shelves are painted white and reach to the low vaulted ceilings, which are ashed At the end of a bookcase, in the corner of one of the s, hangs a fine engraved portrait of Casanova”
In this elaborate setting, Casanova found the refuge he so sadly needed for his last years The evil days of Venice and Vienna, and the problems and makeshi+fts of e he paid the world with his Memoirs
II -- LETTERS FROM FRANCESCA
In 1786, Casanova renewed his correspondence with Francesca, rote: