"Now at last we can enjoy the wonderful 'History of My Life'...as if we were reading an entirely new book...Few more extraordinary men have ever lived; an no memoirist gives us a more vivid impression of the social background of his period."--Peter Quennell The last two volumes of Casanova's account of his extraordinary life include the story of ...
"All that a life of this kind can contain Casanova put into his story. And how much of the world!--the eighteenth century as you get it in no other book; society from top to bottom; Europe from England to Russia, a more brilliant variety of characters than you can find in any eighteenth-century novel."--Edmund Wilson Volumes 9 and 10 contain ...
The operatic life of the librettist for "Don Giovanni" and "The Marriage of Figaro." In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte was the proprietor of a small grocery store in New York. But since his birth into an Italian Jewish family in 1749, he had already been a priest, a poet, the lover of many women, a scandalous Enlightenment thinker banned from teaching in ...
The rediscovered masterpiece from the author of "Embers" is an erotically charged novel, written within the framework of historical reality, about Casanova's fateful encounter with the woman who finally defeats him.
"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' Volumes 3 and 4 offer some of the most extraordinary episodes in Casanova's extraordinary life, including his ...
Casanova was in his fifty-third year. Though no longer driven by the lust of adventure that had spurred him in his youth, he was still hunted athwart the world, hunted now by a restlessness due to the approach of old age. His yearning for Venice, the city of his birth, grew so intense that, like a wounded bird slowly circling downwards in its ...
Told from the perspective of his innumerable sexual conquests, "Casanova's Women" renders a vivid flesh-and-blood portrait of the famed philanderer, clearing away the myth while illuminating the lives of the women who have too long languished in the shadows.
A biography of the celebrated 18th-century author, courtier, womanizer, mathematician, and general man-about-town, written by a French academic. Flem maintains that Casanova, in his boundless curiosity and eagerness for new experience, typified the Enlightenment optimism regarding the world.
Infamous as the ultimate ladies' man, Giacomo Casanova was ecclesiastic, writer, soldier, spy and diplomat, but above all remains, after two hundred years, the archetypal elegant libertine. This book traces his life, with a vibrant insight into each of his escapades, illustrated with confessions from his memoirs. The first popular biography on the ...
It's 2005, Venice. Giacomo Casanova wakes in a familiar room. His most recent memory is of dying the night before. However, his body is now young again and his sexual powers have returned. In search of an explanation for his supernatural resurrection, he ventures out into the streets of modern Venice. Much has changed, but the women are as ...
One of the few works written in Casanova's native Italian, The Duel is an important example of the infamous lothario's vivid prose and inimitable style. Having escaped from the infamous Piombi Prison in Venice, Casanova became an exile, travelling through Western Europe and being given shelter on account of his fame. The story recounts the duel he ...
Beloved NPR commentator and popular author Codrescu makes a stunning return to historical fiction, detailing the adventurous life and erotic times of the famed illuminist Giacomo Casanova. Codrescu creates a surreal portrait of the legendary Casanova, as the old adventurer plays out his final years in a dilapidated castle in Bohemia.
The original translation of Casanova's exploits, once published in a two-volume case edition, is now released by Holloway House Publishing as The Many Loves of Casanova - in a single trade edition size that is bound to charm readers with the adventures of the original 'man who so loved women.' Once limited to few eyes due to a restricted private ...
Casanova, the Venetian who lived most of his life in exile from his beloved city and created his own myth - which in turn is a reflection of the nature of the city itself - is the subject of this masterly biographical essay by Stefan Zweig. As Zweig describes in this volume: 'Imaginative writers rarely have a biography, and men who have ...
Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover of the Western world, but a supreme story teller. He lived a life stranger than most fictions, and the tale of his own adventures is his most compelling story, and one that remained unfinished at the ...
Psychoanalytic studies of literature have tended either to apply to literary works psychoanalytic theories formulated in other contexts (as in so-called 'Freudian readings') or, more recently, to see textuality as itself a psychoanalytic issue. In contrast, the author bases his model for reading on a more open version of the therapeutic exchange, ...
Casanova had been judged a Don Juan of the salons, cold and indifferent to women, but in this account, Lydia Flem rediscovers him as she believes he really was - an ardent hero of the Enlightenment, a man of great charm, imagination and vitality, a true friend and lover of women.
One of Schinitzler's most poignant evocations of the passing of time and the ironies of sentiment and love, "Casanova's Return to Venice" tells the story of an ageing Casanova's desperate desire to return to the city he truly loves after a life of exile, a desire which is contrasted with his still libidinous, sensuous yet weary pursuit of women, ...
The real fascination of the career of Giacomo Casanova is often overlooked by those who know of him only for his sexual exploits. Great lover he was, perhaps; but he was also much more. The bastard son of Venetian actors, he rose to consort with scholars and cardinals, kings and noblemen and to write one of the raciest autobiographies of all time. ...
First published in 1797, a year before his death, Casanova's memoirs stretched to 3000 pages and came to be considered the ultimate expression of libertinism. They are scurrilous in their exposure of the mechanisms of seduction but are at the same time a scintillating portrait of of an epoch. This book presents, in a usable single volume, the most ...
Giacomo Casanova arrives in England in the summer of 1763 at the age of thirty-eight, seeking a respite from his restless travels and liaisons. But the lure of company proves too hard to resist and the dazzlingly pretty face of young Marie Charpillon even harder. Casanova's pursuit of this elusive bewitcher drives him from exhilaration to ...
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