Adventurer The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
Free Download Leo Damrosch, "Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova"
English | ISBN: 0300248288 | 2022 | 432 pages | PDF | 252 MB
A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch
"Fully succeeds in communicating that ‘vivid presentness,’ that ‘joyful eagerness’ for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova-and reading about him."-Gregory Dowling, Wall Street Journal
"A nuanced, deftly contextualized biography of an adventurer, an opportunist, and a man of voracious appetites. . . . Another top-notch work from Damrosch."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The life of the iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) has never been told in the depth it deserves. An alluring representative of the Enlightenment’s shadowy underside, Casanova was an aspiring priest, an army officer, a fortune teller, a con man, a magus, a violinist, a mathematician, a Masonic master, an entrepreneur, a diplomat, a gambler, a spy-and the first to tell his own story. In his vivid autobiography
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