num_pages: 504
description: Here are the confessions of the world’s most fabled lover. These unashamed recollections are his odyssey through the boudoirs of eighteenth-century Europe. Casanova was his name. In our age it is synonymous with seducer and rogue, lecher and swindler - largely because he bequeathed to posterity this disarmingly candid, utterly unsparing self-portrait. Adventurer, playwright, financier, duelist, promoter, confidence man, he was the king of opportunities, a self-appointed noble, and a self-made success. Above all, Casanova lived and loved, fully and exuberantly. Later, when the fires of passion were banked, he filled twelve volumes with tales of his romantic escapades. They are distilled here into one book.
language: English
title: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
titlecomplete: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
characters: Giacomo Casanova
genres: Biography, Classics, History, 18th Century, Autobiography, Italy, Italian Literature, Nonfiction, Literature, Memoir
ratings_count: 1891
places: Republic of Venice
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: National Book Award
category: Translation, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Premio Nacional a la mejor traducción
publisher: Kessinger Pub Co