The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Volume 4 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Casanova’s life story is one of the most reliable sources of how Europeans lived in the eighteenth century. This is the fourth of his six-volume Memoirs, subtitled “Adventures in the South.”  Presented in this book are Casanova’s travels around Europe—and the love affairs, parties, passions, dangers, and disappointments that he finds.