Author: Mitchell Starrett BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Life of Casanova from 1774 to 1798
Author: Mitchell Starrett BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
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's Life and Times
Author: David John ThompsonPublisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1399052098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This is both the life of Giacomo Casanova and a chronicle of eighteenth-century Europe. Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born the son of a moderately poor acting family at a time when the stage carried enormous social stigma. Yet in his own lifetime he achieved celebrity across Europe, rubbing shoulders with numerous of the eighteenth century's greatest men and women, from Frederick the Great to Catherine the Great, from Voltaire to Albrecht von Haller, from Pope Benedict XIV to Pope Clement XIII. It was a fame that had little to do with his romantic exploits. This was to come later, following upon the posthumous publication of his magnificent History of My Life. An adventurer and a man of learning, his was an extraordinary life whose story was intertwined with the story of eighteenth-century Europe. To try to understand this fascinating character we need also to try to understand the period in which he lived. This is the aim of Casanova's Life and Times.
Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People
Author: Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Author: Josiah Gilbert HollandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
The Century
Author: The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Author: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete
Author: Giacomo CasanovaPublisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 2946
Book Description
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.
The Life of Casanova from 1774 to 1798
Author: Mitchell Storrett BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Casanova's "Icosameron", Or, The Story of Edward and Elizabeth
Author: Giacomo CasanovaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
After a shipwreck, Edward and Elizabeth find themselves in the center of the earth and live for eighty-one years with the small humans they find there.