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DON GIOVANNI AND CASANOVA Love! by Roberto Sironi the malediction of seducers is
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ppeared for the first time in 1632 in Tirso de Molina’s comedy “The deceiver of Seville and the stone guest, then revived by Mozart in 1665 with his famous opera, the character of Don Giovanni, over time and in the fantasies of all human beings, becomes a man, leaving the theater forever to become the prototype of a gallant and enterprising female suitor, of his unique kind! His being libertine and seductively libertarian of him leads him to be, given his amorous raids with many women, a brave, daring and reckless man, the fault of his frequent clashes with the men of the women he courts!
Here in modern language, “Don Giovanni” is by far the most used expression to define someone, certainly a man, who is constantly looking for women with whom to flirt, seduce them but never with the idea of engaging in a serious, constant, lasting relationship! ... He is the womanizer par excellence and on this state of his existential there are doubts! So you can be any Don Giovanni, do Don Giovanni without ever being really one, be a Don Giovanni from overwork whose resourcefulness is resolved in a foolish boast and finally be a Don Giovanni for real, the one who does not advertise and moves in his sentimental world with extreme accuracy, with charm, almost in the shadows, exercising his amorous talent with absolute rigor, with the meticulousness of a great professional of seduction! But what does love for a Don Giovanni consist of? What are his ingredients, how does a character of this type experience love? How great affection mixed with adoration? An affection with an allergy to falling in love? Or a continuous affair with the mystery, a bond, a very close relationship with the mystery in which he has placed only pure desire and nothing else? All men would like to have been or think they are a new Don Giovanni in order to be able to collect one heart after another, carving the auction of love with countless notches! In short, this Don Giovanni is undoubtedly a male myth drunk with lust and sensual desires, inexhaustible and never dormant! The legend would have it that then, in old age, Don Giovanni repented of all his living by chasing his prey in the female world, but honestly I do not see him in the role of the repentant ... You can never regret having lived it all a life in the company of pleasure? As with all obvious questions, the answer, unfortunately, is dilated in the fog of an originality that goes beyond fantasies, philosophies, opinions and cultures! For now, let’s be content with narrating the facts ... The events, plots and events in the History of Love, leave them to the dreamers, let’s deal with reality ...
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