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Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Casanova gleanings
Author: Casanova Gleanings
Author: James Rives ChildsCasanova
Author: Ian KellyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781585426584
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This vivid biography of the world's greatest lover reveals surprising unknown facets of the man behind the myth. 16-page photo insert.
Casanova in Tuscany
Author: Stefano FerociPublisher: Edizioni Fiesolane
ISBN: 295628875X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Casanova in Tuscany will be read, with delight, by those interested in Tuscany, Casanova, and the numerous other connected topics Feroci discusses. The book will no doubt be a source for walking tours in Florence, Siena, and other sites in the region and a favorite of those who enjoy reflecting on the by gone days of the old Grand Duchy Leopold.
Casanova
Author: Laurence BergreenPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476716528
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
“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).
Casanova, a New Perspective
Author: James Rives ChildsPublisher:
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Casanova's Women
Author: Judith SummersPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596911220
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A definitive profile of the eighteenth-century Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova, whose name has become a synonym for seduction, looks at history's most famous lover from a female perspective, throwing light on a dangerous and beguiling man, as seen through the eyes of the women who loved him.
Index of the Review Casanova Gleanings (1958-1980)
Author: Dice, Cards, Wheels
Author: Thomas M. KavanaghPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202457
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels, Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight centuries, using gambling and its representations in literature as a lens through which to observe French culture. Kavanagh argues that the way people gamble tells us something otherwise unrecognized about the values, conflicts, and cultures that define a period or class. To gamble is to enter a world traced out by the rules and protocols of the game the gambler plays. That world may be an alternative to the established order, but the shape and structure of the game reveal indirectly hidden tensions, fears, and prohibitions. Drawing on literature from the Middle Ages to the present, Kavanagh reconstructs the figure of the gambler and his evolving personae. He examines, among other examples, Bodel's dicing in a twelfth-century tavern for the conversion of the Muslim world; Pascal's post-Reformation redefinition of salvation as the gambler's prize; the aristocratic libertine's celebration of the bluff; and Balzac's, Barbey d'Aurevilly's, and Bourget's nineteenth-century revisions of the gambler. Dice, Cards, Wheels embraces the tremendous breadth of French history and emerges as a broad-ranging study of the different forms of gambling, from the dice games of the Middle Ages to the digital slot machines of the twenty-first century, and what those games tell us about French culture and history.
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