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Author : Giacomo Casanova
Release : 1894
Genre : Adventure and adventurers
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Book Synopsis The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova by : Giacomo Casanova
Download or read book The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova written by Giacomo Casanova. This book was released on 1894. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giacomo Casanova
Release : 2021-04-27
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Memoirs of Casanova Volume I by : Giacomo Casanova
Download or read book Memoirs of Casanova Volume I written by Giacomo Casanova. This book was released on 2021-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe’s most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Casanova sought to emulate the lessons of the Enlightenment on the level of everyday life, a sentiment captured perfectly in the opening sentence of his Memoirs: “I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.”Memoirs of Casanova Volume I covers the childhood of Giacomo Casanova in Venice. The eldest of six children, Casanova is raised by actor and actress Gaetano Casanova and Zanetta Farussi at a time of cultural and economic ascendancy for the Republic of Venice. Following his father’s death at the age of eight, Casanova, whose mother was often busy touring Europe for her work in the theater, is sent to a boarding house in Padua. Due to poor living conditions, he is eventually taken into the care of an instructor and priest, whose household introduced the young boy to music, literature, and most importantly, women. In Padua, Casanova discovers the ideals of art and beauty that will drive him for much of his life, remaining with him through all of his trials and triumphs. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Giacomo Casanova’s Memoirs of Casanova is a classic of European literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author : Giacomo Casanova
Release : 2021-01-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by : Giacomo Casanova
Download or read book The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete written by Giacomo Casanova. This book was released on 2021-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compandium of memoirs of the famous Italian adventurer and writer Giacomo Casanova, 'The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete' was first published in the year 1894. This volume includes his memoirs that were written between 1725-1798.
Author : Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova
Release : 1997-05-22
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 648/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis History of My Life by : Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova
Download or read book History of My Life written by Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova. This book was released on 1997-05-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning translation of the complete memoirs of Casanova available for the first time in paperback. In volumes 5 and 6, Casanova brings his flight from the Inquisitor's prison in Venice to a happy conclusion. Exiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and Paris, where he establishes himself as a cabalist, makes a fortune in Holland, helps start the French State Lottery, goes on to Switzerland where he meets Voltaire. Because every previous edition of Casanova's Memoirs had been abridged to suppress the author's political and religious views and tame his vivid, often racy, style, the literary world considered it a major event when Willard R. Trask's translation of the complete original text was published in six double volumes between 1966 and 1971. Trask's award-winning translation now appears in paperback for the first time.
Author : Laurence Bergreen
Release : 2016-11-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 528/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Casanova by : Laurence Bergreen
Download or read book Casanova written by Laurence Bergreen. This book was released on 2016-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sexy, surprising, funny, insightful, and wildly entertaining” (Huffington Post)—the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova, the impoverished boy who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius in decadent eighteenth-century Europe. Today, “Casanova” is a synonym for “great lover,” yet the real story of this remarkable figure is little known. A figure straight out of a Henry Fielding novel, Giacomo Casanova was erotic, brilliant, impulsive, and desperate for recognition; a self-destructive genius. Over the course of his lifetime, he claimed to have seduced more than one hundred women, among them married women, young women in convents, girls just barely in their teens, women of high and low birth alike. Abandoned by his mother, an actress and courtesan, Casanova was raised by his illiterate grandmother, coming of age in a Venice filled with spies and political intrigue. He was intellectually curious and read forbidden books, for which he was jailed. He staged a dramatic escape from Venice’s notorious prison, I Piombi, the only person known to have done so. He then fled to France, ingratiated himself at the royal court, and invented the national lottery that still exists to this day. He crisscrossed Europe, landing for a while in St. Petersburg, where he was admitted to the court of Catherine the Great. He corresponded with Voltaire and met Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte—assisting them as they composed the timeless opera Don Giovanni. And he wrote what many consider the greatest memoir of the era, the twelve-volume Story of My Life. Laurence Bergreen’s Casanova recounts this astonishing life in rich, intimate detail, and at the same time, paints a dazzling portrait of eighteenth-century Europe, filled with a cast characters from serving girls to kings and courtiers, “great fun for any history lover” (Kirkus Reviews).
