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This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science.

I'm Karen Hopkins.

Kacanova, the name is synonymous with a reputation for romantic, well let's say excess.

But a new study suggests that the real Giacomo Casanova may have exaggerated his sexual exploits.

Not in terms of their sheer volume, but in their infectious aftermath.

Because though Casanova claimed to have suffered several bouts of

gonorrhea, researchers could find no traces of the responsible microbe on the

pages of the womanizer's handwritten memoir. The findings will appear in the journal, Electroferises.

Casanova's memoir, completed in 1798, fills 12 volumes, and its English translation runs to 3,500 pages.

In this tell-all, Casanova tallies some 122 lovers

and confesses to recurring gonorrreal relapses.

To investigate these claims, researchers turned to a technique they'd previously

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