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History of My Life, Volume 9 and 10 (Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier De Seingalt)
History of My Life, Volume 9 and 10
Autor Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier De Seingalt
Verlag Johns Hopkins University Press
Sprache Englisch
Einband Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
Seiten 858 S.
Artikelnummer 8424521
ISBN 978-0-8018-5666-2
CHF 78.00
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Zusammenfassung
Though beginning to age, and ruing it, Casanova still manages to exert a powerful attraction on women.

Volumes 9 and 10 contain descriptions of Casanova's first visits to England, Prussia, Russia, and Poland. In all these countries he gained access to the Courts. Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia join the roster of potentates entertained and charmed by the adventurer. Though beginning to age, and ruing it, Casanova still manages to exert a powerful attraction on women.

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.