Giacomo Casanova

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Also Known As	Jacques, Chevalier de Seingalt
Born	April 2, 1725 • Venice • Italy
Died	June 4, 1798 (aged 73) • Bohemia

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English statesman

François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

French author

Clare Boothe Luce

American playwright and statesman

Ramón Pérez de Ayala

Spanish author

Donald Maclean

British diplomat and spy

Guy Burgess

British diplomat and spy

Giovanni Guareschi

Italian journalist and novelist

Agnello Parteciaco

doge of Venice

Niccolò Machiavelli

Italian statesman and writer

St. John XXIII

pope

Leo XIII

pope

Sarpi, detail of a portrait (the black spot on his face covers the scar from an unsuccessful attempt on his life in 1607); in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eng.

Paolo Sarpi

Italian theologian

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Baldassare Castiglione

Italian author

Enrico Dandolo

doge of Venice

Paul V

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Pelagius I

pope

Renato Ruggiero

Italian diplomat

Piccolomini-Pieri, Ottavio, duca d'Amalfi

Ottavio Piccolomini-Pieri, duca d’Amalfi

Austrian general

Elsa Morante

Italian author

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If You'd Only Be My Valentine, American Valentine card, 1910. Cupid gathers a basket of red hearts from a pine tree which, in the language of flowers represents daring. Valentine's Day St. Valentine's Day February 14 love romance history and society heart In Roman mythology Cupid was the son of Venus, goddess of love (Eros and Aphrodite in the Greek Pantheon).

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