The English, The memoirs of Casanova

by Giacomo Casanova, Arthur Machen (Translator)

Overview

The reader who imagines that at these words rage gave place to love, and that I hastened to obtain the prize, does not know the nature of the passion so well as the vile woman whose plaything I was. From hot love to hot anger is a short journey, but the return is slow and difficult – 23rd volume of the classic Casanova!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163120413
Publisher:	Walrus Books Publisher
Publication date:	07/01/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	531 KB

About the Author

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was a Venetian adventurer and author. His main book Histoire de ma vie (Story 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.

He was so famous as a womanizer that his name remains synonymous with the art of seduction and he is sometimes called "the world's greatest lover". He associated with European royalty, popes and cardinals, along with men such as Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart; but if he had not been obliged to spend some years as a librarian in the household of Count Waldstein of Bohemia (where he relieved his boredom by writing the story of his life), it is possible that he would be forgotten today