![]() ![]() No, not a great lover a person of prodigious and varied talents who achieves and then squanders great success over and over. ![]() Translation by Arthur MachenĮveryone has probably known at least one Casanova in their life. Volume One contains the first two sections: "Venetian Years" and "To Paris and Prison''. His appetite for life is voracious for him, a life lived close to the precipice is the only life worth living. He holds a verbal dual with Voltaire, a pistol duel with a Polish noble, and finds himself hauled before the court multiple times, including in London, where the judge in question turns out to be none other than Henry Fielding (The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling). He falls madly in love, has wild flings and delirious orgies, and encounters some of the most brilliant figures of his time, including Catherine the Great, Louis XV and Benjamin Franklin. Intense and scandalous, Casanova's extraordinary adventures take the listener on an incredible voyage across 18th-century Europe - from France to Russia, Poland to Spain and Turkey to Germany, with Venice at their heart. The Story of My Life is the explosive and exhilarating autobiography by the infamous libertine Giacomo Casanova. ![]()
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