“A passport that belonged to Casanova?! How did you get such a wonderful thing?? That must be worth a fortune! I’m in complete shock. Are many of C’s papers and belongings in private collections? I don’t know much about these things, but I expected them to be in museums.”
This was my reaction when my wonderful friend Marco, who likes to surprise me with gifts from across the sea, recently sent me a copy of Giacomo Casanova’s passport. I overreacted, not surprisingly, so excited at the idea that I somehow thought Marco might be…
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This is an important-looking document indeed, much grander than a boring EU booklet.
I used to like the old-fashioned driving licences too, far nicer than the new paper+photocard style.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Bring back all the old stuff, I say. I still have one of my father’s driving licences from, I think, the 1950s.
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