Giacomo Casanova on the occasion of the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of his birth. 

Writer, poet, adventurer, diplomat, icon of a world and a civilization: Casanova is a fundamental key to understanding the European eighteenth century, the world of great courts and powerful dynasties, protagonist of exciting encounters with the leading figures of the cultural and artistic world, of the seductive mysteries of gambling and boundless, multifaceted metamorphoses. At the same time, his myth arrives intact in the contemporary world; accomplice to an imaginary that develops while Casanova is still alive - also thanks to his account in the Mémoires - tenaciously fueled in the centuries that follow. 

The exhibition thus reconstructs the character through history, by displaying part of the documents from the casanovist collection of Aldo Ravà, from the Correr Library; art, with paintings from the era, including the portrait of Casanova attributed to Pietro Longhi; his imaginary in the 20th century through the lens of cinema, focusing on Federico Fellini's masterpiece Casanova (1976), with sketches of film sets and costumes from the collection of the Massimo and Sonia Cirulli Foundation, designed by Danilo Donati, up to the original stage costumes, kept by the Farani Theatrical Tailoring. 

A tale of historical and imaginative events, to restore the greatness of a fascinating, complex, immortal figure. 

The cinematic exploration opens with A painting and a poster. Two portraits compared where the parallelism between the historical image of Casanova, in the presumed portrait attributed to Pietro Longhi, from the Beryl and Giovanni Cavallini collection, and its cinematographic reinterpretation by Fellini, who transformed it into a symbol of existential emptiness, takes shape. 

An homage to the great director cannot be missed with a dedicated exploration on Between dream and camera A biography of Federico Fellini to tell the master of cinema and his visionary style, suspended between dream, memory, and satire, which revolutionized cinematic narration. A space that introduces Eloquent fabrics and fashions. The costumes of Fellini's Casanova with the creations of Danilo Donati. For this film, the Italian costume designer won the 1977 Oscar for Best Costume Design - his second, after the one for Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet in 1969 - to which two 1977 Silver Ribbons for best set design and best costumes were added.