""Many times I have paid double the price for what I thought was friendship."
On the other hand, he only paid once for love - but then it cost a lot. Not just for him.
Giacomo Casanova accepts a challenge: if he seduces the daughter of a Venetian nobleman, he will also win the favor of an Austrian countess. The girl is very beautiful, the countess is very voluptuous. The girl has a fiance, but that's just an add-on, just like the Countess's voluptuous socialite is also an add-on.
Casanova realizes that this is not even a game of love when there is no turning back.
Venice, 1755. Maria Theresa, Carlo Goldoni, II. Frederick, the age of Giambattista Tiepolo. The work is a masterly interweaving of real events and the writer's fantasy: Matteo Strukul combined the elements of the adventure novel and the libertine novel to create a story that could have happened."