Adventurer : the life and times of Giacomo Casanova /
Damrosch, Leopold,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-406) and index.
Introduction: The challenge of Casanova -- City of masks and mirrors -- Awakenings -- An erotic education -- A career in the church -- The mysterious Castrato -- Casanova's children -- Corfu and Constantinople -- Metamorphosis -- Playboy -- Libertinism -- "You will also forget Henriette" -- Paris at last -- Nuns and lovers -- The great escape -- In search of the blind goddess -- Manon -- Rolling stone -- Jousting with Voltaire -- Still rolling -- Magus -- The end of Act I -- At the courts of Frederick and Catherine -- The duel -- "This phantom liberty" -- Spain -- Whiling away the years in Italy -- Trieste, and Venice at last -- The gathering gloom -- A pink Louis XV armchair -- Chronology.
Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798
Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798.
Adventure and adventurers
Adventure and adventurers.