could be the classic case of him wanting to protect the name of a married woman, OR the insinuation was about himself and a boyfriend
Or Fresia himself is the boyfriend, and we're talking about a fallout between boyfriends?
These make some sense to me, as it would be harder for him to even allude to them, the way I think he should have been able to say "the man insulted me" if that was the problem. (Though one eyewitness account does have him implying that*, eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable for things like this, and as far as I can tell, Keith himself does *not* say this.) The more we find out, the more mysteries there are!
* "Because this man spoke to me," which Cahn and I both thought was weird, and which I can now attest was in the copy of the eyewitness account and not just the British envoy's account. I suspect what in grad school we used to jokingly call a "scribo", i.e. a scribal error, and it read something like "the way this man spoke to me" or "this man to me offensively."
Casanova in Venice: in 1780? Huh. I thought he was already stuck in Bohemia as a Librarian by then, but I could be wrong.
Wikipedia says 1785 for the Bohemian librarianship, and this is only 1778, so he's still in Venice as far as I can tell.
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Re: Calumny! Karl von Keith's side of the story
Date: 2025-07-20 04:06 pm (UTC)Or Fresia himself is the boyfriend, and we're talking about a fallout between boyfriends?
These make some sense to me, as it would be harder for him to even allude to them, the way I think he should have been able to say "the man insulted me" if that was the problem. (Though one eyewitness account does have him implying that*, eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable for things like this, and as far as I can tell, Keith himself does *not* say this.) The more we find out, the more mysteries there are!
* "Because this man spoke to me," which Cahn and I both thought was weird, and which I can now attest was in the copy of the eyewitness account and not just the British envoy's account. I suspect what in grad school we used to jokingly call a "scribo", i.e. a scribal error, and it read something like "the way this man spoke to me" or "this man to me offensively."
Casanova in Venice: in 1780? Huh. I thought he was already stuck in Bohemia as a Librarian by then, but I could be wrong.
Wikipedia says 1785 for the Bohemian librarianship, and this is only 1778, so he's still in Venice as far as I can tell.