The Story of My Life (Penguin Classics)

by Giacomo Casanova (Author), Gilberto Pizzamiglio (Introduction), Gilberto Pizzamiglio (Editor), Giacomo Casanova (Author), Stephen Sartarelli (Translator), Sophie Hawkes (Translator)

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $15.62

  Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover of the Western world, but a supreme story teller. He lived a life stranger than most fictions, and the tale of his own adventures is his most compelling story, and one that remained unfinished at the time of his death. This new selection contains all the highlights of Casanova's life: his youth in Venice as a precocious ecclesiastic; his dabbling in the occult; his imprisonment and thrilling escape; and his amorous conquests, ranging from noblewomen to nuns.