Arthur Machen's 'Casanova'

Over the centuries, who have been Casanova's defenders? One of them was Welsh author Arthur Machen, who translated the memoirs into English in the 1880's. An illustration from that edition is shown below. Machen was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, who was usually up for most literary genres: Gothic horror, fantasy, the Occult, mysticism, and what today we might call Magical Realism. Although little known today, he influenced many subsequent horror and fantasy writers, from H.P. Lovecraft and Weird Tales to Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, Alan Moore and Guillermo del Toro.