Author: Giacomo CasanovaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
Author: Giacomo CasanovaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 6: Spanish Passions
Author: Giacomo CasanovaPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 162558170X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". He associated with European royalty, popes and cardinals, along with luminaries such as Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart. He spent his last years in Bohemia as a librarian in Count Waldstein's household, where he also wrote the story of his life. Set of 6 volumes.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Author: Giacomo CasanovaThe 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 Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 5: In London and Moscow
Author: Giacomo CasanovaPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625581718
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". He associated with European royalty, popes and cardinals, along with luminaries such as Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart. He spent his last years in Bohemia as a librarian in Count Waldstein's household, where he also wrote the story of his life. Set of 6 volumes.
The Memoirs Of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt Vol. 6
Author: de Seingalt Jacques CasanovaPublisher: Double 9 Books
ISBN: 9789358017625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt" is a 12-volume autobiographical work by the famous Italian adventurer and libertine Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. The sixth volume of the series covers the years 1761-1763 and continues Casanova's various escapades and encounters during this period. In this volume, Casanova finds himself in various European cities, including Amsterdam, where he becomes involved in a plot to defraud the Dutch East India Company, and St. Petersburg, where he engages in a love affair with a Russian noblewoman. Casanova's travels take him from one adventure to the next, including an encounter with the infamous Count Cagliostro, a visit to the court of King Louis XV, and a brush with the law in Warsaw. Throughout the book, Casanova's wit, charm, and cunning are on full display as he navigates the social and political landscapes of the era.
History of My Life
Author: Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt CasanovaPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801856648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Harsh Justice
Author: James Q. WhitmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198035314
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Criminal punishment in America is harsh and degrading--more so than anywhere else in the liberal west. Executions and long prison terms are commonplace in America. Countries like France and Germany, by contrast, are systematically mild. European offenders are rarely sent to prison, and when they are, they serve far shorter terms than their American counterparts. Why is America so comparatively harsh? In this novel work of comparative legal history, James Whitman argues that the answer lies in America's triumphant embrace of a non-hierarchical social system and distrust of state power which have contributed to a law of punishment that is more willing to degrade offenders.
Memoirs of Casanova Volume VII
Author: Giacomo CasanovaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 VII follows Giacomo Casanova from Paris--where he spent two years learning the French language and enraging local authorities--to Vienna, a city unsuited to his libertine lifestyle. After a year, he grows tired of Austrian stuffiness and returns to Venice, his birth city. There, he gains and loses fortunes overnight, living the torturous lows and intoxicating highs of life as a professional gambler. Somehow, in a city where supposedly everyone knows his name, Casanova accumulates even more enemies, drawing the attention of state spies and risking not just disgrace, but a lengthy imprisonment. 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.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798
Author: Giacomo CasanovaPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336845689X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.