Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover of the Western world, but a supreme story teller. He lived a life stranger than most fictions, and the tale of his own adventures is his most compelling story, and one that remained unfinished at the time of his death. This new selection contains all the highlights of Casanova's life: his youth in Venice as a precocious ecclesiastic; his dabbling in the occult; his imprisonment and thrilling escape; and his amorous conquests, ranging from noblewomen to nuns.

The Story of My Life (Penguin Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Casanova, Giacomo

Historical

Penguin Classics

Casanova was the most notorious lover in history. From seducing a nun in an elaborate boudoir, watched by her lover, to frolicking in a bath with a beautiful girl and an eccentric old lady to trick her of her jewels, his memoir describes his amorous encounters in intimate detail. United by the theme of love, the writings in the "Great Loves" series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love...

Penguin Great Loves Of Mistresses Tigresses And Other Conquest

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Classic

Love can be surprising. Love can be heartbreaking. Love can be an art. But love is the singular emotion that all humans rely on most . . . and crave endlessly, no matter what the cost. United by this theme of love, the nine titles in the Penguin Great Loves collection include tales of blissful and all-encompassing, doomed and tragic, erotic and absurd, seductive and adulterous, innocent and murderous love. A deeply moving addition to the Penguin Great Ideas and Great Journeys series, each gorgeously packaged book will challenge all expectations of love while celebrating the beauty of its existence. All books in this series: Cures for Love Doomed Love The Eaten Heart First Love Forbidden Fruit The Kreutzer Sonata A Mere Interlude Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests The SeducerÂ's Diary

Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests (Penguin Great Loves)

Penguin??Books

The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-98), is now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in his memoirs. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. In his time he was a diplomat, businessman, trainee priest, traveler, prisoner, magician, confidence man, gambler, professional entertainer, and charlatan. He financed business projects, organized lotteries, wrote opera libretti, and dabbled in high politics. Above all he was an autobiographer of enduring brilliance and subtlety who left behind him what is probably the most remarkable confession ever written.
Casanova explored to the full all the possibilities eighteenth-century Venice offered by way of love and profit before being imprisoned, escaping from jail, and fleeing from the city to begin travels that took him across Europe. In Moscow and London, Berlin and Constantinople, he met the famous men and women of his time—Catherine the Great, Voltaire, Louis XV, Rousseau—and recorded his encounters for the memoirs he wrote in retirement at the end of his life.
History of My Life is by turns touching, thrilling, wonderfully comic, and quite irresistible. The present edition, which includes approximately one third of Casanova's enormous (and unfinished) book, contains all his major adventures and all his greatest affairs of the heart.

History of My Life

Arts & Literature

Everyman"s Library

The original translation of Casanova’s exploits, once published in a two-volume case edition, is now released by Holloway House Publishing as "The Many Loves of Casanova" – in a single trade edition size that is bound to charm readers with the adventures of the original "man who so loved women."  Translated by Welsh novelist Arthur Machen, today’s illustrated edition focuses on the stories of Casanova’s loves. His ruminations and social vignettes of 18th century European life are refined into short prefaces between the chapters, allowing readers to ride from one sexual intrigue to the next.  Readers will revel in the sexual restraint of "Bathing Girl," Casanova’s relationship with a young peasant who believes Casanova is capable of raising buried treasure from her family’s home. They will follow the mystery of "The Transvestite," as Casanova falls in love with a feminine singer who claims to be a male castrato under his feminine attire, a claim Casanova is determined to refute. None will resist his intoxicating affair with "The Ambassador’s Mistress," a worldly woman who slips into his Venetian room every night dressed as a woman of the cloister…  Thirty other stories follow, most with a moral behind their zesty and uninhibited exploits. Over the course of some 450 pages, they track the progress of a man studying for a career in the church until his passions lead him in other directions – so much so that after drinking to brace himself for his first sermon, he passes out right in the pulpit!

The Many Loves of Casanova: Uncensored Personal Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

United States

Holloway House Pub Co

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Memorias De J. Casanova De Seingalt V6 (1884) (Spanish Edition)

Kessinger Publishing

Memorias De J. Casanova De Seingalt (Spanish Edition)

Literary

Kessinger Pub

The Memoirs Of Giacomo Casanova Di Seingalt V7 (1922)

Lettres De Femmes A Jacques Casanova (1686) (French Edition)

Maynial, Edouard

Rava, Aldo

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

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