History of My Life (Revised) by Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt

History of My Life (Revised) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780801856624)

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History of My Life (Revised) by Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt

History of My Life (Revised)

$52.95
History of My Life (Revised) by Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt

History of My Life (Revised)

$52.95
Format: Paperback
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In volumes 1 and 2, Casanova tells the story of his family, his first loves, and his early travels. With the death of his grandmother, he is sent to a seminary--but is soon expelled. He is briefly imprisoned in the fortress of Sant' Andrea. After wandering from Naples to Rome in search of a patron, he enters the service of Cardinal Acquaviva.

About this edition: 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 Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova
ISBN-10: 0801856620
ISBN-13: 9780801856624
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1997
Pages: 728
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.12w x 1.55d

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 05/31/2007 pg. 22
By Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova
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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.

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