The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
Author | : Giacomo Casanova |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Giacomo Casanova |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Giacomo Casanova |
Publisher | : Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2021-06-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1513286862 |
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 II covers the young adulthood of Giacomo Casanova. Having excelled in his study of law at the University of Padua, Casanova embarks on an ill-fated career as a cleric. Drawn further toward the life of a dandy than that of a man of God, he moves within some of Venice’s highest social circles while womanizing and developing an addiction to gambling. After being forced to leave the seminary due to a debt-related imprisonment, Casanova manages to gain employment with a powerful Bishop in Rome. But his taste for freedom and fast-living proves much too strong, and soon ends his religious career for good. 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.
Author | : Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997-05-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780801856648 |
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.
Author | : Giacomo Casanova |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2008-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781406571844 |
(Jacques) Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-1798) was a Venetian adventurer and author. His main book Histoire de Ma Vie (History of My Life), part autobiography and part memoir, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. So famous a womanizer was the Italian-born libertine Giacomo Casanova that, a full two centuries after his death, his name remains synonymous with the art of seduction. But for the years he spent in the employ of Count Waldstein of Bohemia as a librarian, Casanova, "the world's greatest lover" - at one-time the company of European royalty, popes and cardinals, and man known to the likes of Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart - would have been consigned to obscurity. He began to think about writing his memoirs around 1780 and began in earnest by 1789, as "the only remedy to keep from going mad or dying of grief." The first draft was completed by July 1792, and he spent the next six years revising it.
Author | : Laurence Bergreen |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476716528 |
“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).
Author | : Giacomo Casanova |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 874 |
Release | : 2022-12-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3368456253 |
Author | : Jacques Casanova de Seingalt |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3734037468 |
Reproduction of the original: The Memoires of Casanova by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Author | : Giacomo Casanova |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 2946 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Jacques Casanova de Seingalt |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3734037492 |
Reproduction of the original: The Memoires of Casanova by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Author | : Jacques De Seingal Casanova |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 2007-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781434484161 |
Giacomo Casanova (Jacques Casanova de Seingalt) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer, and womanizer. He used charm, guile, threats, intimidation, and even aggression to conquer women, sometimes leaving behind children or debt. This volume is about his exploits in Paris.