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CASANOVA: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy with Ian Kelly Wednesday 7th February 2018 Doors open at 6:30 pm, Talk commences at 7:00 pm Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) would be appalled by his contemporary reputation. A fiercely proud polymath and intellectual, the posthumous publication of his sexually frank memoirs utterly eclipsed his many other claims to fame. In a lavishly illustrated talk, the historian, actor and dramatist Ian Kelly will illuminate Casanova’s travels, focusing on his adventures around Georgian Soho. Librettist, mathematician, trainee priest, lottery winner, Casanova was much more than just a sensualist but his memoirs brought him two centuries of notoriety and changed forever the way we think and write about ourselves - and about sex. Ian Kelly |
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