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Libro dei sogni poetici, d’invenzione e di capricci malinconici» le aveva definite scherzosamente il Leopardi, consegnando invece a queste pagine la dialettica drammatica del suo pensiero e della sua stessa vita. Opera filosofica, libro di poetica, sincera passione laica, le Operette morali rappresentano...

A series of adventures wilder and more fantastic than the wildest of romances, written down with the exactitude of a business diary; a view of men and cities from Naples to Berlin, from Madrid and London to Constantinople and St. Petersburg; the 'vie intime' of the eighteenth century depicted by a man,...

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women...

Madame Denis— Dedini— Zanovitch— Zen— I Am Obliged to Leave— I Arrive at

Portrait of the Pretended Countess Piccolomini— Quarrel and Duel— Esther

Cardinal Passianei— The Pope— Masiuccia— I Arrive At Naple

The Door— Keeper's Daughters— The Horoscopes— Mdlle. Roma

I Renounce the Clerical Profession, and Enter the Military

My Stay in Vienna— Joseph II— My Departure for Venic

Count Tiretta of Trevisa Abbe Coste— Lambertini, the Pope's Niece Her

Slight Misfortunes Compel Me to Leave Venice— My Adventures in Milan and

I Give up Agatha to Lord Percy— I Set out for Milan— The Actress at

I Am Ordered to Leave Vienna— The Empress Moderates but Does Not Annul the Order— Zavoiski at Munich— My Stay at Augsburg— Gasconnade at Louisburg— The Cologne Newspaper— My Arrival at Aix-la-Chapell

I Resolve to Become a Monk— I go to Confession— Delay of a