While still young I befriended the horses in the meadows, and in time they let me ride them, with my hands in their manes and my heels in their flanks.' Lucia, daughter of servants on an idyllic country estate, grows up innocent, shoeless and free to roam: 'Pasiano, the estate where I was born, extended out over the hills as far as the eye could see. Japin's fiction, wrought from a few fragments of historical fact, fills in the gaps. When they met again, years later in an Amsterdam brothel, she was repulsively disfigured and he had no idea how she got there.
Casanova described her in his autobiography as one of only two women he had wronged. The woman is Lucia, heroine of Arthur Japin's latest novel, In Lucia's Eyes, the imagined memoir of Casanova's first love.
Of all the arts of seduction, it is the gentlest and, therefore, generally the most effective.' This is a technique for the advanced practitioner, but I saw through it effortlessly. One woman lucky enough to have experienced Casanova's specialist area of expertise at first hand discerned the secret of his success: 'Above all else, he gave the impression of being fascinated by every facet of my mind.
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