Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius
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- ID: 187
- Added: 2025-09-03
- Updated: 2025-09-03
- ISBN: 9781476716497
- Publisher: Simon and Schuster
- Published: 2016-11-01
- Reviews: 3
"The remarkable story of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), an impoverished abandoned boy who became the notorious libertine, famous writer, and correspondent with figures such as Voltaire, Louis XV, and Catherine the Great in decadent 18th-century Europe."--Provided by publisher.
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- A detailed exploration of Casanova's life and the era he lived in.
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- Casanova styled himself to be a man free to go where the wind blows him.
- He makes no apologies nor does he regret his transgressions often attributing it to the folly of youth.
- These were written for the author's own enjoyment, which is possibly the best way to go about it.
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- Laurence Bergreen's lively new biography Casanova leaves no detail unmentioned as he chronicles the life of a remarkable man.
- There’s enough larger-than-life charisma that it’s easy to see why this man mesmerized generations of readers of both sexes.
- His memoir breaks off abruptly before he hits 50: 'In a real sense, when he was no longer young and charismatic, he was no longer Casanova.'