This book presents the history of Venice, but also it depicts the life of Casanova and his family, figureheads of Veteran life. The bon vivant and womanizer could only flourish and become the epitome of lust in Venice. The city, the women, and gambling became both a point of escape and a magnet. Thus, a completely new image of Venice takes shape, like a mosaic. A meticulous search for clues that, of course, does not leave out any masquerade ball or painting of its most revered geniuses like Giorgione, Tiziano and Tintoretto. With great detail, the reader is presented with the intimate essence of the city that shaped Casanova, through centuries and history, in which courtesans became poets and self confident women became muses for magnificent painters and sinister dictators.