History Creator / GiacomoCasanova

What made Casanova stand out was his values. He was well-known to be a ChivalrousPervert who valued women's intelligence and cared enough to satisfy them emotionally and sexually, which was unusual by the standards of the day. Casanova boasted that he had sex with over 10,000 women, though his memoir only mentioned [[ReallyGetsAround 120]] sexual partners over the course of his life. He traveled a lot, visiting countries from England to the Ottoman Empire, and getting to meet other historical figures like UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, Creator/BenjaminFranklin, Creator/{{Voltaire}}, Madame de Pompadour, UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat, and probably Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart.

* TheCasanova: The TropeNamer and one of the most famous RealLifeExamples. Amusingly, despite his status as this, contrary to what many might think, he really wasn't all that good-looking, compared to how he's portrayed in media, or even compared to other men who fit this trope.

* AnythingThatMoves: Casanova would target women (and girls) regardless of their class, status, or age, and would even go after relatives. '''Nobody''' is safe from this guy.

* ''That Night in Varennes'', a 1982 French film. Several characters are traveling together in a coach that is a few hours behind the one that is carrying King UsefulNotes/LouisXVI and UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette in their flight to Varennes in 1791 during UsefulNotes/{{the French Revolution}}. Casanova is one of them, played by Creator/MarcelloMastroianni.

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was a UsefulNotes/{{Ven|ice}}etian libertine and a rake who spent half of his life embarking on sexual pursuits, his experiences of which are recorded in his memoir, ''Histoire de ma vie'' (" History of My Life": he wrote it in French). The books contain 1.2 million words in 12 volumes, covering his birth to 1774, though there is some question as to how much of his autobiography is true, and how much is exaggerated.

What made Casanova stand out was his values. He was well-known to be a ChivalrousPervert who valued women's intelligence and cared enough to satisfy them emotionally and sexually, which was unusual by the standards of the day. Casanova boasted that he had sex with over 10,000 women, though his memoir only mentioned [[ReallyGetsAround 120]] sexual partners over the course of his life. He traveled a lot, visiting countries from England to the Ottoman empire, and getting to meet other historical figures like UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, Creator/BenjaminFranklin, Creator/{{Voltaire}}, Madame de Pompadour, UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat, and probably Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart.

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798), was a UsefulNotes/{{Ven|ice}}etian libertine and a rake who spent half of his life embarking on sexual pursuits, his experiences of which are recorded in his memoir, ''Histoire de ma vie'' (" History of My Life": he wrote it in French). The books contain 1.2 million words in 12 volumes, covering his birth to 1774, though there is some question as to how much of his autobiography is true, and how much is exaggerated.

* TheCasanova: The TropeNamer and one of the most famous RealLifeExamples. Amusingly, despite his status as this, contrary to what many might think, he really wasn't all that good-looking compared to how he's portrayed in media, or even compared to other men who fit this trope.
* ChivalrousPervert: He was often described in this vain, being a caring lover to those he was serious about. It seems he was LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces. Of course, he enjoyed sex more than he did love, as his reputation precedes him.

* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: Casanova's casual description of sex as had by both him and the other people in his memoirs make it sound like it was the most normal thing in his time.

* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Why Casanova fell in love with the greatest love of his life, Henriette, whom he described to be free-spirited, independent, and intelligent.

* AnythingThatMoves: Casanova would target women (and girls) regardless of their class, status, age, and even relation to him. '''Nobody''' is safe from this guy.

Perhaps the most famous lover of all time, whose sexual reputation is so (in)famous and notorious that it coined the term and trope, TheCasanova.

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798), was a UsefulNotes/{{Ven|ice}}etian libertine and a rake who spent half of his life embarking on sexual pursuits, his experiences of which are recorded in his memoir, ''Histoire de ma vie'' ("The History of My Life", he wrote it in French). The books contain 1.2 million words in 12 volumes, covering his birth to 1774, though there is some question as to how much of his autobiography is true, and how much is exaggerated.

He also reported using condoms and consumed 50 oysters (considered an aphrodisiac at the time) before he engaged with his women.

* AmicableExes: He was still in touch with some of his ex-lovers and provided them the same respect he always had for them despite losing his sexual interest in them.
* AnythingThatMoves: Casanova would target women (and boys) regardless of their class, status, age, and even his family members. Nobody is safe from this guy.

* {{Ephebophile}}: One of the lesser known and more controversial aspects of Casanova was that he was known to go after girls and teens much younger than many people today would consider legal or moral targets for relationships and sex (for an adult). He had a sexual encounter with a 13 year old in Paris, when he was thirty and bought a 12 year old girl in St. Petersburg as a SexSlave. At one point, this crossed right over into out right pedophilia; when he was almost 50, he ran into an old lover and her daughter, and the mother ended up bringing the child to him for...some alone time. The little girl was 9 years old. He later introduced the mother to another one of his friends who also "liked" little girls as much as Casanova did so that he could get some of the same. She obliged him as well.

* ParentalAbandonment: He suffered this from both his parents, particularly his mother who gave him up to his grandmother's care to pursue her acting career.

* ''Series/{{Casanova}}'', a 2005 [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] miniseries starring both Creator/DavidTennant and Creator/PeterOToole as the title character (young and old).

* ''Casanova Variations'', 2014 film starring Creator/JohnMalkovich (yep, [[Literature/DangerousLiaisons Valmont himself]]) in the role.

* ReallyGetsAround: One of the most infamous man-whores in human history. Unfortunately, he's a very dark [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of this, as it meant that he ''really'' didn't care where the sex came from; be it married women, political rivals, noble ladies, common whores, nuns... [[PaedoHunt or children.]]

%%* TheCasanova: The TropeNamer
%%* ChivalrousPervert

* ReallyGetsAround

* AnythingThatMoves: Casanova would target women (and boys) regardless of their class, status, age, and even his [[IncestIsRelative family members]]. Nobody is safe from this guy.

* TheCasanova: The TropeNamer
* ChivalrousPervert

* AmicableExes: He was still in touch with some of his ex-lovers and provided them the same respect he always had for them despite losing his sexual interests in them.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Casanova was stuck living in Bohemia in the last several years as a librarian and desire to return to his hometown Venice, but couldn't since UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte occupied it and he lacked any finance.

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798), was a UsefulNotes/{{Ven|ice}}etian libertine and a rake who spent half of his life embarking on sexual pursuits, his experiences of which are recorded in his memoir, ''Histoire de ma vie'' ("The History of My Life"). The books contain 1.2 million words in 12 volumes, covering his birth to 1774, though there is some question as to how much of his autobiography is true, and how much is exaggerated.

What made Casanova stand out was his values. He was well-known to be a ChivalrousPervert who valued women's intelligence and cared enough to satisfy them emotionally and sexually, which was unusual by the standards of the day. Casanova boasted that he had sex with over 10,000 women, though his memoir only mentioned [[ReallyGetsAround 120]] sexual partners over the course of his life. He traveled a lot, visiting countries from England to the Ottoman empire, and getting to meet other historical figures like UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, Creator/BenjaminFranklin, Creator/{{Voltaire}}, Madame de Pompadour, UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat, and probably [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]].

* ''Casanova Variations'', 2014 film starring Creator/JohnMalkovich in the role.

Poslední růže od Casanovy (The Last Rose from Casanova), a 1966 Czech film featuring Felix le Breux as aging Casanova during his stay at Duchcov.

* ''That Night in Varennes'', a 1982 French film. Several characters are traveling together in a coach that is a few hours behind the one that is carrying King UsefulNotes/LouisXVI and UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette in their flight to Varennes during UsefulNotes/{{the French Revolution}}. Casanova is one of them, played by Creator/MarcelloMastroianni.