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| Introduction | |
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| Note on the Text | |
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| Translators' Note | |
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| Preface | |
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| Family history | |
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| My first memory | |
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| Journey to Padua | |
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| My grandmother boards me at the home of Doctor Gozzi | |
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| My first acquaintance with love | |
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| Bettina believed to be mad | |
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| Father Mancia | |
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| The pox | |
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| I leave Padua | |
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| The patriarch of Venice confers the minor orders on me | |
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| Getting to know Senator Malipiero, Teresa Imer, Father Tosello's niece, Signora Orio, Nanetta, Marta, and La Cavamacchie | |
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| I become a preacher | |
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| My adventure at Pasiano with Lucia | |
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| My brief but highly eventful visit to Ancona | |
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| Cecilia, Marina, Bellino | |
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| The Greek slave girl from the lazaretto | |
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| Bellino revealed | |
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| Bellino Unmasked | |
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| His Story | |
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| Comic encounter at Orsara | |
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| Journey to Corfu | |
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| Sojourn in Constantinople | |
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| Bonneval | |
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| My return to Corfu | |
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| I become a true good-for-nothing | |
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| A great stroke of luck raises me from destitution to the rank of wealthy gentleman | |
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| My apprenticeship in Paris | |
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| Portraits | |
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| Oddities | |
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| A thousand things | |
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| My blunders in the French language, my successes, my many acquaintances | |
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| Louis XV | |
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| My brother arrives in Paris | |
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| My sojourn in Vienna | |
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| Joseph II | |
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| My departure for Venice | |
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| First meeting with M.M. | |
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| Letter from C.C. Second meeting with the nun in my superb casino in Venice | |
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| I am happy | |
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| Continuation of the preceding chapter | |
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| Visit to the convent and conversation with M.M. | |
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| Her letter to me and my answer | |
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| Rendezvous at the casino in Murano, witnessed by her lover | |
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| Under the lead roof | |
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| The earthquake | |
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| Soradaci's betrayal | |
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| The means I used to overwhelm him | |
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| Father Balbi succeeds in his task | |
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| I leave my cell | |
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| Count Asquini's untimely remarks | |
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| The moment of departure | |
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| My escape from the prison | |
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| I nearly lose my life on the roof | |
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| I leave the Ducal Palace, take ship and reach the mainland | |
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| Father Balbi exposes me to danger | |
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| The ruse by which I separate from him for the moment | |
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| Voltaire, my discussions with the great man | |
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| Ariosto | |
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| The duke of Villars | |
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| The syndic and his three lovely ladies | |
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| Debate at Voltaire's house | |
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| Cardinal Passionei | |
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| The pope | |
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| Mariuccia | |
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| My arrival in Naples | |
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| I reach Marseilles | |
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| Mme. D'Urfe | |
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| My niece is well received by Mme. Audibert | |
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| I get rid of my brother and Passano | |
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| Regeneration | |
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| Mme. d'Urfe departs | |
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| Marcolina's constancy | |
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| My arrival in London | |
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| Mrs. Cornelys | |
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| I am presented at Court | |
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| I rent a furnished house | |
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| I meet many people | |
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| The customs of the English | |
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| Lord Keith | |
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| Appointment with the king of Prussia in the garden of Sans Souci | |
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| My conversation with the monarch | |
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| La Denis | |
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| The Pomeranian cadets | |
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| I meet the czarina | |
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| My conversations with the great Sovereign | |
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| La Valville | |
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| I leave Zaira | |
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| My departure from St. Petersburg and arrival in Warsaw | |
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| Princes Adam Czartoryski and Sulkowski | |
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| The king of Poland, Stanislaus Poniatowski, called Stanislaus Augustus I | |
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| Theatrical intrigues | |
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| Branicki | |
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| My duel with Branicki | |
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| My departure from Paris | |
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| My journey to Madrid | |
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| The count of Aranda | |
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| The prince of La Catolica | |
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| The duke of Losada | |
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| Mengs | |
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| A ball | |
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| La Pichona | |
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| Dona Ignacia | |
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| My courtship of Dona Ignacia, the gentleman-cobbler's daughter | |
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| My imprisonment at Buen Retiro and my triumph | |
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| I am recommended to the Venetian ambassador by a State Inquisitor of the Republic | |
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| Notes | |