Giacomo Casanova: 119 books

M. de Voltaire; My Discussions with That Great Man— Ariosto— The Duc de

A book of confessions penned without reticence and without penitence; a record of forty years of occult charlatanism; a collection of tales of successful imposture, of bonnes fortunes, of marvellous escapes, of transcendent audacity, told with the humour of Smollett and the delicate wit of Voltaire.

The palaces and marble stairs of old Venice are no longer desolate, but thronged with scarlet-robed senators, prisoners with the doom of the Ten upon their heads cross the Bridge of Sighs, at dead of night the nun slips out of the convent gate to the dark canal where a gondola is waiting, we assist at...

He who opens these wonderful pages is as one who sits in a theatre and looks across the gloom, not on a stage-play, but on another and a vanished world. The curtain draws up, and suddenly a hundred and fifty years are rolled away, and in bright light stands out before us the whole life of the past; the...

** Edition enrichie (Introduction, notes, chronologie, index, glossaire et bibliographie)** Les mémoires de Casanova ne sont pas seulement, comme on le croit trop souvent, le catalogue de ses conquêtes, fussent-elles évoquées avec verve. Leur auteur, certes, est un aventurier, mais c’est...

Établi d'après le manuscrit et accompagné d'un appareil critique entièrement renouvelé, ce troisième et dernier volume de l'Histoire de ma vie contient les tomes VIII à X, couvrant les années 1763-1774. Casanova voyage à travers l'Europe (Angleterre, Russie et Pologne, Espagne...) avant de...

Leave Bologna a Happy Man— The Captain Parts from Us in Reggio, where I

My Stay at Riga— Campioni St. Heleine— D'Asagon— Arrival of the

Nel 1772 Casanova arriva a Bologna, dove si trova a suo completo agio. Scrive nelle sue "Memorie": "non esiste in Italia una città in cui si possa vivere con maggiore libertà che a Bologna, dove ci si può procurare con poca spesa ogni sorta di piacere". Anche intellettualmente,...

Durante il suo soggiorno a Varsavia Casanova, per un insulto subito nel camerino di una ballerina italiana, sfida a duello un nobile polacco. L’esito fortunoso dello scontro lascia però uno strascico di dubbi e di chiacchiere. Il racconto si presenta perciò come una cronaca che vuole ristabilire...

Awake in a moment she came to open the door in her smock, and without a light. As I wanted one, I told her to get the flint and steel, which she did, warning me in a modest voice that she was not dressed. “That’s of no consequence,” said I, “provided you are covered.” She said no more, and soon lighted a candle, but she could not help laughing when she saw me dripping wet.

Avant-propos. J. J. Rouſſeau, fameux relaps, écrivain très-éloquent, philoſophe viſionnaire, jouant la miſanthropie et ambitionnant la perſécution, écrivit un avant-propos à ſa nouvelle Héloïse, qui eſt unique : il inſulte le lecteur et ne l’indiſpose pas. Un petit avant-propos...

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Was ist das für ein Typ, dieser Don Quixote, der mit seiner Lanze gegen Windmühlen kämpft? Ist er einer dieser Spinner, die vor lauter Ritterromanen Realität und Fiktion verwechseln? Oder ist er mit seinem herzzerreißenden Kampf für das Gute und Schöne vielleicht der viel größere Realist...