[thehooplehead]

Agreed. I enjoyed getting a better idea of how people lived back in that era. Casanova, as he presents himself, was a perfect trickster archetype.

For example: He mentions being at a dinner where an actress lamented a lisp that would impede her career. Casanova told her he could cure her speech overnight. The next day, he presented her with a rewrite of the play she was performing, with all the difficult phonemes replaced so she'd her lisp wouldn't be noticed.

My main take away is that he's always trying to look at a situation, rationally see it for what it is, but also playfully imagine what it could be.