"Although I do not regret my many love deeds, I am far from wanting to serve anyone as an example for exploiting the fairer sex, which is so deserving of my success."

Giacomo Casanova, a legendary Italian seducer, adventurer, priest, musician, soldier, spy, diplomat, is one of the most educated people of his time, and he was often associated with scandals in relationships with women.

However, few are familiar with the other, dark side of Casanova, which he discovered in his autobiography. Shortly after midnight, armed with a hunting knife, the son of famous theater actors sneaked into the local cemetery and dug a fresh grave there. He cut off his body in order to take revenge on the Greek spice seller, Demetrius, who led him that day to cross a dilapidated bridge and fell into the "stinking mud".

Casanova then hid under the enemy's bed with his hand, with the intention of scaring him. Unfortunately, he succeeded in his plan, because Demetrio suffered a stroke from the strong shock and remained bedridden for the rest of his life.

Casanova later defended himself with these words: "I was sincerely sorry, because I didn't want to hurt him so much," however, he also stated that he himself could have gone bad when he fell over the bridge earlier that day. He just had more luck.

This is just one of the adventures that the great adventurer described in his memoirs, adding that he was followed by bad luck from that event.

He was soon forced to leave his native Venice and do diplomatic work, after a young girl accused him of rape.

According to his memoirs, he "taught her a lesson" using a broom, because she refused to sleep with him even though he had previously paid her. Although he was subsequently acquitted due to lack of evidence, he had already left town by then.

All this can be read in detail from his autobiography, which is considered by many to be one of the most important documents of the 18th century, although it shows only the life of a man who was considered a great lover. Many also believe that there were certainly more men who could adorn themselves with the same title, only that they never wrote books about their exploits.

What definitely made Casanova stand out was the fact that although he sought pleasure in sex, he also provided it to his partners. However, we are quite convinced that many women would gladly live without that experience, because, for example, he forced the villagers to sleep with him, and he also took a girl to bed, whom he was quite sure was his daughter.

Today he would be accused of rape, but at the time he was proud of his love successes. Despite the fact that it is thanks to them that he "earned" numerous sexually transmitted diseases, among which are syphilis and gonorrhea.

He liked to brag about sleeping with 132 women, including one nun, and he regularly visited prostitutes in brothels.

He did not want to use condoms (which existed at the time), but rather relied on the visible symptoms of the disease in his partners. That did not help him much with his illnesses (because of one, he could not have sex for a year), and he became the father of eight illegitimate children.

He spent the last years of his life as a poor exile from society, bored and feeling utter dissatisfaction with life. He even considered suicide, but eventually decided to write a lengthy autobiography.

More details from Casanova's life

CASANOVA WAS BISEXUAL

GiacomoGiralmo Casanova is remembered as a seducer who seduced thousands of women, or as someone said - a man who won half the women of Europe- However, it is also known that, although he preferred women, Casanova was at least three times with men. The first is mentioned by Camille, a prisoner who made up the Casanovi society while he was imprisoned, and in his memoirs he also mentions Ismail on his way to Constantinople and Lieutenant Lunin of St. Petersburg.

CASANOVA EAT 60 STONES A DAY

That stones are a great natural aphrodisiac has been said since the time of Casanova who needed energy to be able to drag so many women to bed. Stones are supposed to be an excellent aphrodisiac due to the combination of iron, zinc and dopamine, and this combination obviously boosted Casanova's libido, so he ate 60 stones a day. Yet despite this, Giacomo Girolamo Casanova always said that his best dish - women.

HE USED LEMON PEEL AS A CONTRACEPTION

In the later period of her life, after having already gone through a number of sexually transmitted diseases, Casanova decided to use lemon peel as a kind of contraception to protect herself from disease and unwanted offspring. It may sound ridiculous (and it is) funny to put a lemon cap on your genitals, but it looks like Casanova was ahead of his time and his action wasn’t exactly a madman’s move. Namely, research has shown that the natural acids found in lemon juice kill sperm, and that they can even act as protection against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases!

CASANOVA ESCAPED FROM PRISON

Casanova has been a fan of the occult since he was eight when he was cured of constant nosebleeds. He was always interested in magic, but it should not be reminded that in his time the occult was not looked upon favorably. It is therefore not surprising that in 1775 he was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison in the then infamous Doge’s Palace prison. However, Casanova had no intention of being imprisoned for five years without women, so after finding an iron cross in the prison yard, he and a colleague dug a tunnel and escaped. He then fled to Paris where he wrote the story of his escape.