Giacomo Casanova (1725 - 1798)

Player, Seducer, Original Pickup Artist, The Mack From Way Back...

Let's face it...this Casanova dude truly was the Mack from way back, so it's only fitting for him to take a place of honor right here in the Dating Guru Showcase.

Casanova was such a famous, hard core womanizer that his name remains synonymous with the art of seduction and he is sometimes called "the world's greatest lover".

Casanova was born, Giacomo Girolamo Casanova in Venice on April 2, 1725. At the age of nine, he was sent to boarding school, but spent his teenage years in the household of his primary instructor, where he first became acquainted with the opposite sex.

Later, while on break from the university, Casanova traveled to the resort town of Pisano where he failed in his first attempt at seduction, due to shyness and hesitation. He then resolved to never be fooled by the apparent innocence of beauty again, and got into some raunchy romances with several women in Pisano, including the gorgeous Donna Lucrezia, the young wife of a lawyer from Rome, who became the first of his married lovers. And then it was on...

Casanova is reported to have slept with 122 different women in his time. And when you consider that he lived way back in the 1700s, without cellphones, night clubs, text messaes, or safe sex, there's no denying that this guy had some serious game! Fortunately, he left behind an autobiography of his adventures before he died on June 4, 1798. To this day, his name remains famous...