The Venetian adventurer spends some time in Paris, where he sees the punishment of a would-be regicide, and then visits the Hague, where his interlocutors include a Jewish banker named Boaz.
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
