![]() ![]() 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. 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.
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