![]() He wagers that she cannot find a woman who is worse for her relationship with him. By this time he has become the stuff that male legend is made of. Eventually she crosses paths with Giacomo Casanova again. For sixteen years she wanders Europe working at any job she can - finally becoming a much sought after, veiled courtesan. Not wanting to hamper her beloved's life, she pretends to have run off with another man. ![]() While Giacomo is in Venice, Lucia is suddenly disfigured by smallpox. They fall deeply in love and become engaged. What led to her betrayal and the breaking off of their engagement? What happened that she became worse than ugly, in Casanova's words?īeautiful Lucia first meets Giacomo when she is a servant girl in an Italian manor. ![]() Arthur Japin's In Lucia's Eyes tells Casanova's story through Lucia. He wrote of Lucia as his great love, telling of their meeting in Pasiano, Italy, her betrayal, and their encounter later in life by which time she had become repulsive. In his memoirs, Giacomo Casanova described Lucia as the first of only two women he'd wronged. ![]()
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