Giacomo Casanova Casanova soon abandoned his military career and returned to Venice. At the age of 21, he set out to become a professional gambler, but losing all the money remaining from the sale of his commission, he turned to his old benefactor Alvise Grimani for a job. Casanova thus began his third career, as a violinist in the San Samuele theater, "a menial journeyman of a sublime art in which, if he who excels is admired, the mediocrity is rightly despised. ... My profession was not a noble one, but I did not care. Calling everything prejudice, I soon acquired all
Rodolfo Casanova Rodolfo Casanova Rodolfo Casanova, also known as Baby" Casanova or Chango" Casanova (born June 21, 1915 in León, Guanajuato, deceased November 23, 1980), was a Mexican boxer in the Featherweight division. He was also the first Mexican to fight a Puerto Rican in the Mexico – Puerto Rico boxing rivalry. Rodolfo was born during the Mexican Revolution, his father Don Rafael Casanova died in that war. His mother moved the family to Mexico City after the death. He grew very poor and started boxing only after his older brother Carlos, an amateur boxer, had no official government backing to attend