Claim: Giacomo Casanova was from the Republic of Venice.

Histoire de ma vie -LRB- Story of My Life -RRB- is both the memoir and autobiography of Giacomo Casanova , a famous 18th-century Italian adventurer . A previous , bowdlerized version was originally known in English as The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova -LRB- from the French Mémoires de Jacques Casanova -RRB- until the original version was published in 1960 .   From 1838 to 1960 , all the editions of the memoirs were derived from the bowdlerized editions produced in German and French in the early nineteenth century . Arthur Machen used one of these inaccurate versions for his English translation published in 1894 which remained the standard English edition for many years .   Although Casanova was Venetian -LRB- born April 2 , 1725 , in Venice , died June 4 , 1798 , in Dux , Bohemia , now Duchcov , Czech Republic -RRB- , the book is written in French , which was the dominant language in the upper class at the time . The book covers Casanova 's life only through 1774 , although the full title of the book is Histoire de ma vie jusqu ' à l'an 1797 -LRB- History of my Life until the year 1797 -RRB- .   On February 18 , 2010 , the National Library of France purchased the 3,700-page manuscript of Histoire de ma vie for approximately $ 7 million -LRB- # 5,750,000 -RRB- . The manuscript is believed to have been given to Casanova 's nephew , Carlo Angiolini , in 1798 . The manuscript is believed to contain pages not previously read or published . Following this acquisition , a new edition of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade , based on the manuscript , was published from 2013 to 2015 .