Giacomo Chevalier De Seingalt Casanova

History of My Life

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All that a life of this kind can contain Casanova put into his story. And how much of the world!--the eighteenth century as you get it in no other book; society from top to bottom; Europe from England to Russia, a more brilliant variety of characters than you can find in any eighteenth-century novel.--Edmund WilsonVolumes 9 and 10 contain descriptions of Casanova's first visits to England, Prussia, Russia, and Poland. In all these countries he gained access to the Courts. Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia join the roster of potentates entertained and charmed by the adventurer. Though beginning to age, and ruing… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Trask, Willard R. (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8018-5666-2
EAN: 9780801856662
Produktnummer: 8424521
Verlag: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Seitenangabe: 856 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.9 cm x D4.7 cm 835 g
Gewicht: 835
Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor

Giacomo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725. His parents, both actors, wanted him to become a priest, but their hopes were dashed when, at sixteen, he was expelled from seminary for immoral misconduct. Probably best-known for his reputation as a womanizer, Casanova was in turn a secretary, a soldier in the Venetian army, a preacher, an alchemist, a gambler, a violinist, a lottery director, and a spy. He translated Homer's Iliad into Italian and collaborated with Da Ponte on the libretto for Mozart's Don Giovanni. He retired in 1785 to the castle of a friend-Count Waldstein of Bohemia-in order to write his memoirs.