Casanova Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy

Name: Casanova Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy
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ISBN: 9781585428441

ISBN-10: 1585428442

ISBN-13: 9781585428441

Edition: 2011

Authors: Ian Kelly

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"A sheer testament to the power of the written word." (The New York Times) Giacomo Casanova's energy was dazzling. He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, and wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years before the French Revolution-as well as his affairs and sexual encounters with dozens of women and a handful of men. Historian Ian Kelly draws on previously unpublished documents from the Venetian Inquisition, and documents by Casanova and his friends and lovers, which give new insights into his life and world. Kelly's research spans eighteenth-century Venice, Paris, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Rome, Prague, and the Czech castle where…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/20/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English