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History of My Life Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova

History of My Life By Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova

History of My Life by Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova

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Summary

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.

History of My Life Summary

History of My Life by Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova

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.

History of My Life Reviews

Trask has written a version in an English fully contemporary yet remarkably Italian in sensibility. With admirable restraint and refinement, he has conveyed the zest and sensuous delight of the original. National Book Award Citation These memoirs are compulsive reading... they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents. -- J. H. Plumb New York Times Book Review Trask expertly rendered this text into English in 1966, and his is the English version to read... Compulsively readable... Certainly, few books better convey the sheer, exuberant joy of being alive and young than these reminiscences. -- Michael Dirda New York Review of Books 2007

About Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova

Giacomo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725. His parents, both actors, wanted him to become a priest, but their hopes were dashed when, at sixteen, he was expelled from seminary for immoral misconduct. Probably best-known for his reputation as a womanizer, Casanova was in turn a secretary, a soldier in the Venetian army, a preacher, an alchemist, a gambler, a violinist, a lottery director, and a spy. He translated Homer's Iliad into Italian and collaborated with Da Ponte on the libretto for Mozart's Don Giovanni. He retired in 1785 to the castle of a friend-Count Waldstein of Bohemia-in order to write his memoirs.

Table of Contents

Volume 5
Chapter 1-11
Notes
Volume 6
Chapter 1-11
Notes
Appendix

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GOR002474321
9780801856648
0801856647
History of My Life by Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova
Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Johns Hopkins University Press
19970717
688
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