Portrait of a weak: Casanova

We have herd at last one time the name of James Casanova(1725-1798) more know a lovers than other, but he has been also a writer, that written also The my life; in the first page is underlining of his catholic faithful, it is the exit of a fair of the lovers that has had a son in Venice, Lorenz,  but that has betrayed his wife alone trough the wit, because in his life never we can read about  betrayal, anyway he says: “The desperation kills; the prayer dissolves it; and after the man retake the trust and he works. The inquiry about the way that supreme being uses for to remove the imminent disgrace that has asked his aid, it is up the human intellect…”it and other lines are alone a exaltation  of God; the age advanced,  and it is fair of a old, because he written this autobiography in age of 65 old age, and the average  life during the 18^th century was among 60 and 70 years old; hence this faithful of Casanova was alone the fair; and the proof of this think is in this step: “Although the man is free he doesn’t think that he can make everything. When he is convinced to make  from a passion he becomes a slave”; it is a reproach that he given to herself  because he has loved alone trough the sentiment much women, because during the 18^th century the custom aren’t so free as today. Other step is other reproach to herself because he  writers: “The sage man is who that has the interior strong of to hold his actions until the calm…”; it is other quality that he certainly hasn’t had , as we can understand it ?Simple because he describes this type of being, and usually who speaks about some human type has envy or admiration, this case is admiration, hence Casanova shows  his weakness typical of his century, and this weakness  is reaffirmed  in these words: “…the unique method that I have used is to leave me bring where the wind has brought me”; it is the confession of a weak that followed everything without conviction, as was the his century, and the confession, now autobiographical is now: “… I has been victim of my senses…”; it likes  me always degenerate and I have lived continuously  in the error…”; it is the pure confession of a old that  very weak confesses his weakness trough these words. Regard the women the confession is very clear: “Regard the women, it has treated of reciprocal deception to not consider…”; it is a portrait of a weak man certainly, but it is also a portrait of a century that lived on the superficiality, and the French Revolution has proofed it; a century of image and safeguard of his image, that after, for the Revolution, has lost totally, because the life was other; Casanova has deceived oneself that this customs were again present, but the confessions that he has said, and that we have read are sign that he has lost every hope that his century was again that he has lived; he finally has given end to a century, of better his century. Other clue of weakness of Casanova is the following: “On the my choose of give  my life to the public that I don’t know? No. I know that I am making a folly…”; it is the evident sign that Casanova was again tied to the customs that by now were alone a memory, the morality was changed, and the century is changing; but this read  is interesting, although becomes very boring, because it given a portrait of Casanova but above all of his 18^th century.

Alessandro Lusana