Lothario
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Lothario is a character in Nicholas Rowe's 1703 play, The Fair Penitent, who seduces and betrays the female lead. The name has come to mean any handsome seducer, generally male.
Additionally, there is a character named Lothario in the story "The Impertinent Curiosity," which the characters of Cervantes' Don Quixote [c. 1605] read aloud. In this story-within-a-story, Anselmo coerces his faithful friend Lothario to test his wife's virtue. Though Lothario sincerely attempts to dissuade Anselmo in the matter, his friend insists, and Lothario eventually falls in love with Anselmo's wife, Camilla.
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