Forced from London, the legendary Venetian ladies’ man travels to Germany, where he helps found an official lottery, meets Prussian soldiers, and finally departs for Berlin.
Giacomo Casanova, Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, John Cleland, Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay, Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, Eliza Haywood, J. P. Jacobsen, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Virginia Woolf, Giovanni Boccaccio, Gustave Flaubert & Denis Diderot