What a horribly, intricately detailed swamp of a book! After wading through the disgustingly delicious story of Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Siengalt--gambler, debaucher, pervert, swindler, rapist, pedophile, con man--I feel as though I need a shower...or perhaps a series of extra-strength antiob...
He bore no relation to his sisters. The boy he called brother was his son, but he was no father to him. The youth who called him brother wore a dress, but was no brother to him. In short, he was a man who was not a man and whose purpose in life it was to be a woman. Bellino’s life was a riddle th...