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Definition of Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
1. Noun. An Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798).
Generic synonyms: Adventurer, Venturer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
Literary usage of Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"An Italian painter, born in Venice; brother of Giovanni Jacopo Casanova. He studied
in Dresden as a pupil of de Sylvestre and Dietrich, and in Venice with ..."
2. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"An Italian painter, born in Venice; brother of Giovanni Jacopo Casanova. He studied
in Dresden as a pupil of de Sylvestre and Dietrich, and in Venice with ..."
3. The Library and the Librarian: A Selection of Articles from the Boston by Edmund Lester Pearson (1910)
"The doings of Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt are told in what is to many
very unedifying reading, but at least they provide a definite answer to the ..."
4. Prejudices by Henry Louis Mencken (1919)
"Set beside this pious babbler, the late Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt
shrinks to the puny proportions of a mere barroom boaster, a smoking-car Don ..."
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