The Complete Memoirs Of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt 1725 1798

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Giacomo Casanova
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Release : 2022-12-07
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The Memoirs Of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt 1725 1798 Complete

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The Memoirs of Casanova, though they have enjoyed the popularity of a bad reputation, have never had justice done to them by serious students of literature, of life, and of history. One English writer, indeed, Mr. Havelock Ellis, has realised that 'there are few more delightful books in the world,' and he has analysed them in an essay on Casanova, published in Affirmations, with extreme care and remarkable subtlety. But this essay stands alone, at all events in English, as an attempt to take Casanova seriously, to show him in his relation to his time, and in his relation to human problems. And yet these Memoirs are perhaps the most valuable document which we possess on the society of the eighteenth century; they are the history of a unique life, a unique personality, one of the greatest of autobiographies; as a record of adventures, they are more entertaining than Gil Blas, or Monte Cristo, or any of the imaginary travels, and escapes, and masquerades in life, which have been written in imitation of them. They tell the story of a man who loved life passionately for its own sake: one to whom woman was, indeed, the most important thing in the world, but to whom nothing in the world was indifferent. The bust which gives us the most lively notion of him shows us a great, vivid, intellectual face, full of fiery energy and calm resource, the face of a thinker and a fighter in one. A scholar, an adventurer, perhaps a Cabalist, a busy stirrer in politics, a gamester, one 'born for the fairer sex,' as he tells us, and born also to be a vagabond; this man, who is remembered now for his written account of his own life, was that rarest kind of autobiographer, one who did not live to write, but wrote because he had lived, and when he could live no longer. And his Memoirs take one all over Europe, giving sidelights, all the more valuable in being almost accidental, upon many of the affairs and people most interesting to us during two-thirds of the eighteenth century. Giacomo Casanova was born in Venice, of Spanish and Italian parentage, on April 2, 1725; he died at the Chateau of Dux, in Bohemia, on June 4, 1798. In that lifetime of seventy-three years he travelled, as his Memoirs show us, in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, England, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Poland, Spain, Holland, Turkey; he met Voltaire at Ferney, Rousseau at Montmorency, Fontenelle, d'Alembert and Crebillon at Paris, George III. in London, Louis XV. at Fontainebleau, Catherine the Great at St. Petersburg, Benedict XII. at Rome, Joseph II. at Vienna, Frederick the Great at Sans-Souci. Imprisoned by the Inquisitors of State in the Piombi at Venice, he made, in 1755, the most famous escape in history. His Memoirs, as we have them, break off abruptly at the moment when he is expecting a safe conduct, and the permission to return to Venice after twenty years' wanderings. He did return, as we know from documents in the Venetian archives; he returned as secret agent of the Inquisitors, and remained in their service from 1774 until 1782. At the end of 1782 he left Venice; and next year we find him in Paris, where, in 1784, he met Count Waldstein at the Venetian Ambassador's, and was invited by him to become his librarian at Dux. He accepted, and for the fourteen remaining years of his life lived at Dux, where he wrote his Memoirs.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Release : 2020-09-28
File : 5136 Pages
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The Memoirs Of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt 1725 1798 Volume 4 Adventures In The South

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Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. According to Wikipedia: "Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-1798) was a Venteitian adveturers 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." Includes unique illustrations.

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Author : Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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Release : 2018-07-20
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Biographical Books 1950 1980

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Genre : Autobiography
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Release : 1980
File : 1634 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015078265793


The Memoires Of Casanova

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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Release : 2018-09-20
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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1950 1977

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Genre : United States
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Release : 1978
File : 2352 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105117254180


Dictionary Catalog Of The Research Libraries Of The New York Public Library 1911 1971 Carril

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Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Release : 1979
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Dictionary Catalog Of The University Library 1919 1962

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Genre : Library catalogs
Author : University of California, Los Angeles. Library
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Release : 1963
File : 1044 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSC:32106021029118


The Reader S Adviser

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Genre : Best books
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Release : 1964
File : 1328 Pages
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The Cumulative Book Index

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Genre : American literature
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Release : 1963
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ISBN-13 : IOWA:31858030454502