Episode 2

Casanova, living on his wits and as a mystic, does a good deed and comes into a fortune. Bragadin offers to adopt him and Henriette agrees to marry him. Grimani, enraged, has Casanova arrested and charged with witchcraft, but he escapes from prison and flees Venice - taking with him Jack, his young illegitimate son by a previous liaison, and Rocco, his servant. Casanova heads for Paris, as he knows that Venetian ambassadors abroad are able to grant pardons.

Casanova flieht mit seinem jungen, illegitimen Sohn Giac und seinem treuen Diener Rocco aus Venedig. Von den Botschaftern Venedigs im Ausland kann er sich eine Begnadigung erhoffen, daher reist er nach Paris, wo er eine Zeit am Königshof verbringt.