![]() ![]() The Other Casanova: A Contribution to Eighteenth Century Music and Manners. A detailed and enjoyable biography drawing heavily on Casanova’s memoirs, without extensive analysis. #CASANOVA MEMOIRES SERIAL#A psychoanalytical biography that suggests Casanova was not a heartless serial seducer but valued women as intellectual equals. ![]() New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. Casanova: The Man Who Really Loved Women. A rather fond rendering of the life of the man, including an overview of his encounters, travels, and lifestyle. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1962. Three Eighteenth Century Figures: Sarah Churchill, John Wesley, Giacomo Casanova. “‘A Comedy in Three Acts’: Autobiography as Theater in Casanova’s Texts.” NEMLA Italian Studies 15 (1991). Claims to be the first complete and unabridged translation of the work that employs new scholarship. The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. Casanova’s Mémoires have been translated into every European language. These Mémoires create an absorbing portrait of a shallow, amoral man whose vitality makes his story rival Benvenuto Cellini’s Autobiography (wr. In the quiet of the library he also relived his past adventures, fictionalizing them for greater effect, and wrote them in French. In 1788, he published Icosameron, a strange novel-fantasy which anticipates many modern inventions. With Count Waldstein as his patron, he took a post as librarian at the château of Dux in Bohemia. With few places in Europe where he could safely go, Casanova decided to retire from public life and write down his adventures. By 1774, he was again employed as a spy, this time for the Venetian state police, but in 1782 he was exiled for libeling one of his patrons. Fearing arrest in Paris again, he fled to Spain, where he stayed until he was expelled from Madrid in 1769. After a short time in Paris, he toured Russia, where he was involved in a scandal and a duel. In Rome, he received the Order of the Golden Spur from the pope. He visited the Netherlands, Germany, Savoy, Switzerland (where he met Voltaire), and Florence (from which he was expelled). Never the man to stay contented in a secure position, he resumed his travels in 1759. He gained a reputation as a financial wizard and moved in the best society. He went to Paris, where he was made head of the national lotteries. Imprisoned in Venice in 1755 for spying, he made a marvelous escape, which he reports in his Mémoires, in a section translated by Arthur Machen as Casanova’s Escape from the Leads (1925). Casanova soon began his adventures: He traveled about Europe and the Near East for years, living variously as preacher, businessman, alchemist, musician, diplomat, and journalist. īorn in Venice on April 2, 1725, in his youth he was expelled from a Venetian seminary for immoral conduct, but his mother saved him from jail by securing for him the protection of the influential Cardinal Claudio Acquaviva. ![]() Although this autobiography is somewhat colored, even the most cursory survey of his career shows him to be the amoral adventurer par excellence. His Mémoires present him as the flamboyant “natural man,” bound by no laws but the law of his own nature. Giovanni Jacopo (or Giacomo) Casanova de Seingalt, known simply as Casanova (kah-sah-NAW-vah), has not suffered an injustice because the world makes his name synonymous with “libertine” in fact, it is largely because of his own efforts that he has acquired this reputation. Icosameron, 1788 ( Casanova’s Icosameron: Or, The Story of Edward and Elizabeth, 1986) Biography The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Written by Himself, 1894, 12 volumes also translated as History of My Life, 1966) Casanova de Seingalt, écrits par lui-même, 1826-1838 (12 volumes definitive edition Histoire de ma vie, 1960-1962 Italian adventurer and memoirist Author Works ![]()
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