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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
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Casanova was an Venetian adventurer and author (1725 - 1798). His Memoirs provide an intimate insight into the life of European society in the eighteenth century. These Memoirs are the history of a unique life, a unique personality, one of the greatest of autobiographies; as a record of adventures. They tell the story of a man who loved life passionately for its own sake: one to whom woman was, indeed, the most important thing in the world, but to whom nothing in the world was indifferent. The bust which gives us the most lively notion of him shows us a great, vivid, intellectual face, full of fiery energy and calm resource, the face of a thinker and a fighter in one. (Introduction, Arthur Symons)
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Release dateMay 13, 2013
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
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Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was an Italian adventurer and author. Born in Venice, Casanova was the eldest of six siblings born to Gaetano Casanova and Zanetta Farussi, an actor and actress. Raised in a city noted for its cosmopolitanism, night life, and glamor, Casanova overcame a sickly childhood to excel in school, entering the University of Padua at the age of 12. After graduating in 1742 with a degree in law, he struggled to balance his work as a lawyer and low-level cleric with a growing gambling addiction. As scandals and a prison sentence threatened to derail his career in the church, Casanova managed to find work as a scribe for a powerful Cardinal in Rome, but was soon dismissed and entered military service for the Republic of Venice. Over the next several years, he left the service, succeeded as a professional gambler, and embarked on a Grand Tour of Europe. Towards the end of his life, Casanova worked on his exhaustive, scandalous memoirs, a 12-volume autobiography reflecting on a legendary life of romance and debauchery that brought him from the heights of aristocratic society to the lows of illness and imprisonment. Recognized for his self-styled sensationalism as much as he is for his detailed chronicling of 18th century European culture, Casanova is a man whose name is now synonymous with the kind of life he led—fast, fearless, and free.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    I picked this audiobook up because it's read by Benedict Cumberbatch, and honestly I thought I could listen to him read *anything* to me. I've been proven so, so very wrong. In fact, the bit that is essentially detailing a gang rape, but couched in words that reassure the reader/listener that Casanova and his buddies meant no harm and in fact after the first go-round the girl was pretty okay with it and actually liked what was being done to her was so much worse than its already horrendous nature would suggest because of the incongruity of it being delivered via the dulcet timber of Cumberbatch's voice. Even worse is reading/listening to this in the days of Kavanaugh et al. and letting it sink in in an even more absorbing way that this is all the Same Shit, Different Century. Cripes.
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    Genre van de schelmenroman: zeer volatiel zowel in de ruimte (voortdurend rondtrekkend en van de ene situatie in de andere belandend) als in de fortuin.Zeer eerlijk uitkomend voor eigen ingesteldheid: slaaf van zijn hartstocht, gedreven van de ene verovering naar de andere en voortdurend falend. Geen gewetenswroeging over ettelijke verbroken beloften (geweten wel geregeld gesust door ?gunstige? regeling voor het slachtoffer). Van de andere kant verwacht Casanova wel trouw van zijn tegenpartij.Intussen beeld van zeer libertijnse maatschappij in XVIII? (met bijna vanzelfsprekende en nauwelijks aanstootgevende hypocrisie), met fraaie doorkijkjes naar de verschillende europese hoven.Zeer vermakelijk
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    Genre van de schelmenroman: zeer volatiel zowel in de ruimte (voortdurend rondtrekkend en van de ene situatie in de andere belandend) als in de fortuin.Zeer eerlijk uitkomend voor eigen ingesteldheid: slaaf van zijn hartstocht, gedreven van de ene verovering naar de andere en voortdurend falend. Geen gewetenswroeging over ettelijke verbroken beloften (geweten wel geregeld gesust door “gunstige” regeling voor het slachtoffer). Van de andere kant verwacht Casanova wel trouw van zijn tegenpartij.Intussen beeld van zeer libertijnse maatschappij in XVIII² (met bijna vanzelfsprekende en nauwelijks aanstootgevende hypocrisie), met fraaie doorkijkjes naar de verschillende europese hoven.Zeer vermakelijk
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    Four stars for the rarity of this book and illustrations in it by Minelli.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    It took me a few months to read all 6 volumes, but it was well worth it. I really like Casanova's style of writing and his sense of humor.These books really give you some insight in Europe in the 18th century. The man lived to be 73, so he's seen plenty! He also traveled a lot, he was, after all, banned from Venice for quite some years.What really got me is that compared to today, the people then seemed quite free and modern man quite narrow-minded.For example: it was very normal for a woman to have a lover. Especially if this lover had a higher status than her husband this could turn out very beneficial. The husband actually benefited from his wife's lover! Unimaginable today.The justice 'system' then is incomparable with what we have today. Sometimes I was quite perplexed by some of the 'solutions' and sometimes they (almost?) made sense.And Mr. Casanova himself? I think he rather liked himself, but he was quite pompous and arrogant. Still, a very good read.

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