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That didn’t ultimately stop the two from meeting, but that’s another story.Ĭapretta’s house was on the Misericordia. He told Caterina to pack a bag, and he shipped her off to the convent. Apparently Casanova even snuck in the back window to meet with Caterina.īut when Cristoforo returned from a trip, he flipped out (to use the modern term). They spent some lovely weeks meeting clandestinely with the help of Pier Antonio and Caterina’s mother. But Casanova did fall in love with Caterina–and it was mutual. Pier Antonio didn’t get all the money he wanted. Casanova had met Caterina when her brother Pier Antonio tried to fleece Casanova of his money by getting his girlfriend to flirt with him and then Pier threw his beautiful sister at Casanova.
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Giacomo Casanova writes about his love for C.C., who we now know was Caterina Capretta, a young woman whose father was the merchant Cristoforo Capretta. Today I was strolling down the Fondamenta della Misericordia in Venice (it’s so much busier than the last time I was here! And I don’t just mean that the tourists have returned, but that you can’t walk ten feet down the Misericordia without bumping into another bar!) and I was astonished to see that Cristoforo Capretta’s house is now a bar! It’s called A La Vecia Papussa. This orangey-pink house belonged to Cristoforo Capretta and is now a bar.