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Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

by Leo Damrosch

The life of the iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) has never been told in the depth it deserves. An alluring representative of the Enlightenment’s shadowy underside, Casanova was an aspiring priest, an army officer, a fortune teller, a con man, a magus, a violinist, a mathematician, a Masonic master, an entrepreneur, a diplomat, a gambler, a spy—a

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780300248289