Casanova Journal | Casanova Official Museum

Rediscovering Casanova through a historical and authentic lens

The Casanova Journal brings together original contributions by scholars from the Scientific Committee, offering a rigorous and well-documented exploration through the life, ideas and times of Giacomo Casanova. A space of research and scholarly outreach, where letters, historical sources and new interpretations reveal the complexity of a figure too often simplified by myth. An invitation to discover Casanova in depth, with authenticity and a critical perspective.

Lorenzo Da Ponte, Pietro Zaguri and Giacomo Casanova: A cultural triangle in eighteenth-century Venice

The relationship between Da Ponte, Zaguri and Casanova in Venice during the 1770s: shared readings, studies, friendships and tensions.

Venice and the hot air balloons of 1784: science, wonder, and an episode of jealousy

The 1784 hot air balloon flight in Venice, between spectacle, science and private life: Guardi’s painting, Italian experiments, and Casanova’s jealousy.

Two witnesses to a collapsing world: Zaguri, Casanova and the end of the Serenissima

As Europe is swept by revolutions and conquests, Pietro Zaguri and Giacomo Casanova witness, from two distant places, the slow dissolution of the Republic of Venice.

Pietro Zaguri author and architect: art, poetry and projects in eighteenth-century Venice

Pietro Zaguri’s literary and architectural works: poems, comedies, the façade of San Maurizio, projects for La Fenice, and his Rococo taste.

The friendship between Giacomo Casanova and Pietro Zaguri: a unique correspondence in eighteenth-century Venice

A journey through the correspondence between Casanova and Pietro Zaguri: twenty years of friendship, letters, irony and Venetian life in the heart of the 18th century.

Who was Pietro Zaguri? Portrait of an eighteenth-century Venetian patrician

The life of Pietro Zaguri, a Venetian patrician and friend of Casanova: Levantine origins, the Grimani family, his role in Venetian society, and his final years during the decline of the Serenissima.