History of My Life, Volume 9 and 10

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-8018-5666-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 856 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 1012 g

Award-winning translation of the complete memoirs of Casanova available for the first time in paperback.

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.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt

Weitere Mitwirkende

Trask, Willard R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Expeditions- & Reiseliteratur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 9
Chapter 1-13
Notes
Volume 10
Chapter 1-12
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt
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.