Author : Jacques Casanova De Seingalt
Release : 2018-08-19
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 237/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Memoirs of Casanova: Venetian Years - Volume 1. (Illustrated) by : Jacques Casanova De Seingalt
Download or read book The Memoirs of Casanova: Venetian Years - Volume 1. (Illustrated) written by Jacques Casanova De Seingalt. This book was released on 2018-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Edition in 6 Volumes: From THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. Illustrated with Old Engravings. About the Series: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. Complete (Vol. 1 to 6) CASANOVA AT DUX An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE AUTHOR'S PREFACE THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA VOLUME 1 - Venetian Years EPISODE 1 - CHILDHOOD EPISODE 2 - CLERIC IN NAPLES EPISODE 3 - MILITARY CAREER EPISODE 4 - RETURN TO VENICE EPISODE 5 - MILAN AND MANTUA VOLUME 2 - TO PARIS AND PRISON EPISODE 6 - PARIS EPISODE 7 - VENICE EPISODE 8 - CONVENT AFFAIRS EPISODE 9 - THE FALSE NUN EPISODE 10 - UNDER THE LEADS VOLUME 3 - THE ETERNAL QUEST EPISODE 11 - PARIS AND HOLLAND EPISODE 12 - RETURN TO PARIS EPISODE 13 - HOLLAND AND GERMANY EPISODE 14 - SWITZERLAND EPISODE 15 - WITH VOLTAIRE VOLUME 4 - ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH EPISODE 16 - DEPART SWITZERLAND EPISODE 17 - RETURN TO ITALY: GENOA-TUSCANY-ROME EPISODE 18-RETURN TO NAPLES: ROME-NAPLES-BOLOGNA EPISODE 19 - BACK AGAIN TO PARIS EPISODE 20 - MILAN VOLUME 5 -- IN LONDON AND MOSCOW EPISODE 21 - SOUTH OF FRANCE EPISODE 22 - TO LONDON EPISODE 23-THE ENGLISH EPISODE 24 - FLIGHT FROM LONDON TO BERLIN EPISODE 25 - RUSSIA AND POLAND VOLUME 6 - SPANISH PASSIONS, EPISODE 26 - SPAIN EPISODE 27 - EXPELLED FROM SPAIN EPISODE 28 - RETURN TO ROME EPISODE 29 - FLORENCE TO TRIESTE EPISODE 30 - OLD AGE AND DEATH OF CASANOVA APPENDIX AND SUPPLEMENT PART THE FIRST - VENICE 1774-1782 I - CASANOVA'S RETURN TO VENICE II - RELATIONS WITH THE INQUISITORS III - FRANCESCA BUSCHINI IV - PUBLICATIONS V - MLLE. X . . . C . . . V. . . VI - LAST DAYS AT VENICE PART THE SECOND - VIENNA-PARIS I - 1783-1785 II - PARIS III - VIENNA IV - LETTERS FROM FRANCESCA V - LAST DAYS AT VIENNA PART THE THIRD - DUX - 1786-1798 I - THE CASTLE AT DUX II - LETTERS FROM FRANCESCA III - CORRESPONDENCE AND ACTIVITIES IV - CORRESPONDENCE WITH JEAN-FERDINAND OPIZ V - PUBLICATIONS VI - SUMMARY of MY LIFE VII - LAST DAYS AT DUX "I should like to be the younger brother to all humanity." In a signal encounter with the famous French philosopher and writer Voltaire, Casanova explains that "I amuse myself by studying people as I travel . . . it is fun to study the world while passing through it." Indeed, Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt, traveller, adventurer, musician, lover, escaped convict, and avid reader, brings to his monumental The Story of My Life(Histoire de ma vie) an explicit relish-and aptitude-for intimate observations on human nature, customs, gastronomy, science, literature, economics, and religion. Giacomo Casanova began writing his memoirs in approximately 1791, in the relative isolation of the Castle of Dux in Bohemia, where he served as the librarian for Josef Karl Emmanuel, Count Waldstein. His memoires run to several volumes of gripping narrative, being considered to be the most authentic source of the European social customs of the Eighteenth Century. Casanova's reputation preceded him as he travelled throughout the continent, and he was forced in 1767 to seek refuge in Spain. Casanova was permitted to return to Venetian territory between 1774 and 1782, but he spent his final years in the service of Count Waldstein, in Bohemia, where he died in 1798.
