Sabine Herrmann is a historian of eighteenth-century culture and curator of the scientific project of the Permanent Museum dedicated to Giacomo Casanova at Palazzo Zaguri. Her research focuses on the intellectual world in which Casanova operated, with particular attention to the correspondence and European cultural history of the 18th century.
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.
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.
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.
Zaguri writer of plays and poems Alongside his public offices and Venetian social life, Pietro Zaguri passionately cultivated the art of writing. He composed poems, plays and short cheerful works, often intended to circulate in the city’s cultural salons. Writing was for him a place of intellectual pleasure and observation of human behavior, a way […]
Origins and family Pietro Zaguri was born in 1733 to a family that had moved to Venice as early as the 16th century from the port city of Cattaro in southern Dalmatia. The Levantine origins are recalled both by the original name, “Saraceni,” and by the family coat of arms with a stylized Moor’s head.Entry […]
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.
