HISTORY OF MY LIFE: V7&8
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A01=Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova
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Casanova
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- ISBN 9780801856655
- Weight: 703g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jul 1997
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
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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 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.
