This man was once sent as a spy to Dunkirk under the employ of Cardinal Francois de Bernis.
This man was once sent as a spy to Dunkirk under the employ of Cardinal Francois de Bernis. He received a large payment for supposedly transferring the spirit of the elderly Marquise d'Urfé into a young boy. In one adventure, this man used a hollowed-out Bible to smuggle a sharpened spike to Father Balbi. While in Dresden, this man wrote a now-lost parody of Racine's Thebaid titled La Moluccheide. This one-time director of the state lotteries in Paris brags that his gigantic novel Icosaméron would make him famous in a 1976 film about his life by Federico Fellini; Fellini's film was based on the recently-published uncensored edition of his memoir, Historie de ma vie. He famously escaped from the Piombi in the Doge's Palace in 1756. For 10 points, name this famed Venetian libertine.
This man was once sent as a spy to Dunkirk under the employ of Cardinal Francois de Bernis.
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova [or Jean-Jacques, Chevalier de Seingalt]