Episode 1
Giacomo Casanova's parents send him away from Venice for his health. When he returns, he has an unlikely career in the Church.
Born into a family of actors in Venice, Giacomo Casanova is never far from the stage door. Yet his parents think the sickly and self-obsessed boy will die young and send him out of the city for his health. Within a few years, Casanova returns to Venice, now a handsome and dashing young man, with a string of potential mistresses and a somewhat unlikely career in the Church.
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