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18th-Century Venice: 1700–1800
Venice · 1700–1800 · exact time + place
The last centuries of Venice's glory days — masked balls and political intrigue featured in many novels and operas, Vivaldi's orphanage orchestras and Casanova's escapes. The button below opens StoryTerra with both Venice and 1700–1800 already set.
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Casanova
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex regardless of their marital status a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems impervious to his charms. However as he continues to pursue the…
Fellini's Casanova
Casanova is a libertine collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?
The Bohemian
The year is 1764. For over a year Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city full of talented and already-established composers seems closed to him. Looking for…
Destined
In DESTINED (Book #4 in the Vampire Journals), Caitlin Paine wakes to discover herself back in time. She finds herself in a cemetery, on the run from a mob of villagers, and seeks refuge in the ancient cloisters of…
Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Through the childhood and the adolescence of Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs) this is a description of how people live in the Venice of the 18th century: customs habits medicine religion and most of all - the…
Casanova's Big Night
Italy 1757 Pippo Popolino a lowly tailor disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little suspects what awaits him... Locked into the incongruous role by the…
Consuelo
A novel of musical life set in the 18th century. The story of Consuelo, a Gypsy singer, and her adventures in Venice, Austria and Bohemia, narrated by the most eminent of French female writers. Sand was a prolific…
Destined
When Psyche receives a prophecy gone horribly wrong, she learns that even the most beautiful girl in Greece can have a hideous future. Her fate? Fall in love with the one creature even the gods fear.As she feels herself…
Nosferatu in Venice
Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.
The Return of Casanova
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While…
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