History of My Life Paperback - 1997
by Giacomo Chevalier Casanova; Willard R. Trask (Translator)
From the rear cover
Giacomo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725. His parents, both actors, wanted him to become a priest, but their hopes were dashed when, at sixteen, he was expelled from the seminary for immoral misconduct. Probably best-known for his reputation as a womanizer, Casanova was in turn a secretary, a soldier in the Venetian army, a preacher, an alchemist, a gambler, a violinist, a lottery director, and a spy. He translated Homer's Iliad into Italian and collaborated with Da Ponte on the libretto for Mozart's Don Giovanni. He retired in 1785 to the castle of a friend - Count Waldstein of Bohemia - in order to write his memoirs. Because every previous edition of Casonova's Memoirs had been abridged to suppress the author's political and religious views and tame his vivid, often racy, style, the literary world considered it a major event when Willard R. Trask's translation of the complete original text was published in six double volumes between 1966 and 1971. Trask's award-winning translation now appears in paperback for the first time.
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- Title History of My Life
- Author Giacomo Chevalier Casanova; Willard R. Trask (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 728
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-04
- Abridged Yes
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Abridged, Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780801856624 / 0801856620
- Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.12 x 1.55 in (20.32 x 13.00 x 3.94 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Casanova, Giacomo, Europe - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97070304
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- New York Review of Books, 05/31/2007, Page 22
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