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 ca Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was a Venetian adventurer and author. Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was a Venetian adventurer and author. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Giacomo Casanova's Memoirs of Casanova is a classic of European literature reimagined for modern readers.more There, however, he unexpectedly falls in love with a Frenchwoman named Henriette, a soul whose wit and beauty tempt the young libertine-perhaps for the first and last time-to settle down and sow his wild oats.
When a practical joke goes horribly wrong, he escapes to the city of Parma, hoping to reinvent himself yet again. Back in the city of his birth, surrounded with the vices and old friends who forced him to leave in the first place, Casanova soon finds himself in dire straits.
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More than perhaps any other man, Casanova sought to emulate the lessons of the Enlightenment on the level of everyday life, a sentiment captured perfectly in the opening sentence of his Memoirs: "I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely I am a free agent." Memoirs of Casanova Volume V finds Giacomo Casanova serving as an aide to a powerful Venetian senator. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe's most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova.
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