Castle Dux, Bohemia, 1798. Casanova, now a penniless librarian in his seventies, tells Edith, a young kitchen maid in the castle, his remarkable life story, and about falling in love with Henriette.

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Poor Casanova -- expelled from a seminary, forced out of Rome, exiled from Venice, all for drink, debauchery and other scandalous behavior. He was also afflicted with sexual diseases, hounded by the ...