Talk:Edoardo Tiretta

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Source: Around 1783, Tiretta was granted permission to construct a ‘puckabazaar’, which spread over nine bighas and eight cottahs of ground, ‘withconvenient shops, surrounded with a colonnade veranda’. In 1788, themarketplace was valued at Sicca Rupees 1,96,000 and given away as first prize ina lottery. Its ownership changed over time but in the popular imagination, thebazaar continues to be referred to as Tiretta’s, or some variant thereof.” - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/bowing-out/articleshow/68747124.cms

ALT1: ... that Casanova's friend Edoardo Tiretta was known to make love six times a night?

Source: I went with my friend, and as soon as the harebrain saw us she fell on Tiretta’s neck, calling him dear Count “Six-times”—a name which stuck to him all the time he was at Paris.
“What has gained my friend so fine a title, madam?”
“His erotic achievements. He is lord of an honour of which little is known in France, and I am desirous of being the lady.” - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2981/pg2981-images.html

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