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Casanova has become synonymous with love and courtship. If someone were to be called a Casanova then he would be considered notorious for seducing women and a great lover. Giacomo Casanova became infamous thru his memoirs where he details his journeys and seduction of the feminine sex in Venice during the 18th century.

His seducement of girls and the journeys he became involved in, in this endeavor, wouldn't have been possible without his utilisation of the Venetian masquerade mask. Venetians would wear their masks in public, up to six months of the year for both social and business purposes. The custom of wearing masks started in the thirteenth centaury and by the 17th centaury it had become so popular that people were wearing the masks up to half a year of the year for pleasure and business until the fall of the Republic in 1797 to Napoleon. The practice of wearing masks continues today with the Venetian Carnival held around lent every year.

Wearing of a mask permitted people of all business circumstances to do business and socialize together, hidden behind the safety of anonymity, it allowed one to hold ones distance and shield ones standing or to hid ones shame. The common man was able to mix with those of wealth and office at casinos, theaters, and cafs. This cloaking of ones identity is what Casanova utilized in his seduction of women, from all social standings including nuns.

Casanova made use of the mask and an ability to dress the part, which he learnt to some degree from his mother who was a small time actress in Venice, to become many alternative identities including a decorated soldier, a surgeon, a clergyman which led him to meeting Pope Clement, and teller of numerology and magic.

Casanova met with Kings and Princes in disguise including Catherine the Great of Russia. He danced and gambled with the rich of Europe in casinos and at masked balls. He pursued pleasure with every role he played, and sort the company of ladies at every opportunity. He was considered a great love and the ladies he loved, he told each one of them that they were the best love of his life, and they were until the next ladies.

Melanie Robson is a contract writer, researcher and director of Writers Cramp Productions, masquerade masks and masquerade ball masks are just some of many subjects Melanie has investigated and written about.