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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 | |