Casanova: 309 books

In the third volume of Casanova’s Memoirs, “The Eternal Quest,” he gains popularity with prominent people by acting as an alchemist. However, all his success is once again lost through the follies of falling in lust with women and allowing his debts to rise—forcing him as always to travel and try to make money.

MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 IN LONDON AND MOSCOW,

About This Book It was his intention to trade a few sword-thrusts in some place or another, and get the business over with. A sparkling new translation tells the tale of a young libertine who finds his rapier wit matched by actual rapiers. In this autobiographical tale, a young...

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women...

It is indeed a new experience to read this history of a man who, refraining from nothing, has concealed nothing; of one who stood in the courts of Louis the Magnificent before Madame de Pompadour and the nobles of the Ancien Regime, and had an affair with an adventuress of Denmark Street, Soho; who was...

Établi d'après le manuscrit originel et accompagné d'un appareil critique entièrement renouvelé, le deuxième volume de l'Histoire de ma vie contient les tomes IV à VII. Le Vénitien y relate son arrivée à Paris en 1757 après sa spectaculaire évasion des Plombs, les moyens employés pour...

El testimonio emocionante de un chico de los años 70 El universo del precoz autor narrado por él mismo, sus influencias literarias, musicales, sus premios, sus amores, sus costumbres. Además, tres cuentos rescatados del olvido se suman a este diario, prologado por Luna Miguel. Félix...

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women...

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women...

Pochi personaggi sono entrati nell'immaginario collettivo tanto da guadagnarsi il titolo di icona come Giacomo Casanova, che per tutti fin dalla Venezia Settecentesca è diventato sinonimo di 'seduttore'. In questo gustoso testo, una sorta di diario che si trasforma in compiaciuta autobiografia, il...

Nel 1766 in Polonia avvenne un episodio che segnò profondamente Casanova: il duello con il conte Branicki. Questi, durante un litigio a causa della ballerina veneziana Anna Binetti, lo aveva apostrofato chiamandolo poltrone veneziano. Il conte era un personaggio di rilievo alla corte del re Stanislao...

Scritto da Casanova dopo il suo ritorno a Venezia, e in italiano, questo racconto autobiografico offre già tutte le qualità che renderanno impareggiabili le "Memorie". Con tocco felice, vivacità nei particolari e gusto nel commentarli, Casanova racconta qui una sua disavventura d’onore,...

Fuggito dalla famigerata prigione dei Piombi di Venezia, l’avventuriero Giacomo Casanova è costretto all'esilio. Tuttavia, la sua reputazione di impenitente seduttore e libertino gli vale l'accesso ai più alti strati della società europea. Nel 1766, in Polonia, si ritrova obbligato a sfidare...

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women...