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    Casanova in Venice: A Raunchy Rhyme
    Casanova in Venice: A Raunchy Rhyme
    Casanova in Venice: A Raunchy Rhyme
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    Casanova in Venice: A Raunchy Rhyme

    By Kildare Dobbs

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    Re-visit the life of history’s most notorious lover, from childhood to Casanova’s daring escape from the State Inquisition’s prison. Using eighteenth-century poetic conventions that Casanova himself would have cherished, Kildare Dobbs infuses this renegade’s legacy with a modern, witty and very hilarious bite.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherporcupinequill
    Release dateNov 1, 2010
    ISBN9781123009767
    Casanova in Venice: A Raunchy Rhyme
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    Kildare Dobbs

    Kildare Dobbs was born in 1923. Running in Paradise, an early memoir, won the Governor General's Award in 1962, and in 2002 he was made writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto. He also received the National Magazine Award for journalism. His The Eleventh Hour: Poems for the New Millennium appeared in 1997.

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