The last two volumes of Casanova's account of his extraordinary life include the story of his imprisonment in Buen Retiro, his trip to Madrid and his affair with Doña Ignacia, his journey to Barcelona and his detention in the Tower, his encounter with Lord Baltimore, and his serious illness in Aix-en-Provence when he is taken care of by a mysterious woman who turns out to the servant of one of his first loves, Henriette.
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Trask has written a version in an English fully contemporary yet remarkably Italian in sensibility. With admirable restraint and refinement, he has conveyed the zest and sensuous delight of the original.
(National Book Award Citation 2007)These memoirs are compulsive reading... they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents.
(J. H. Plumb New York Times Book Review )Some of the most beautiful spines I have ever seen appear collectively on the six-volume edition of Casanova's History of My Life.
(Mary Cregan Financial Times )Trask expertly rendered this text into English in 1966, and his is the English version to read... Compulsively readable... Certainly, few books better convey the sheer, exuberant joy of being alive and young than these reminiscences.
(Michael Dirda New York Review of Books )Casanova is unsurpassed as the recreator of the daily talking interests of 18th-century Europe. He ranges from slut to patrician, from closet to cabinet, waterfront to palace. He is superior to all other erotic writers because of his pleasure in news, in gossip, in the whole personality of his mistresses.
(V. S. Pritchett )The Chevalier de Seingalt was a most remarkable man, who had some of the qualities of greatness... Has any novelist or poet ever rendered better than Casanova the passing glory of the personal life?—the gaiety, the spontaneity, the generosity of youth: the ups and downs of middle age when our character begins to get to us and we are forced to come to terms with it; the dreadful blanks of later years, when what is gone is gone. All that a life of this kind can contain Casanova put into his story. And how much of the world!—the eighteenth century as you get it in no other book; society from top to bottom; Europe from England to Russia, a more brilliant variety of characters than you can find in any eighteenth-century novel.
(Edmund Wilson )Now at last we can enjoy the wonderful History of My Life... as if we were reading an entirely new book... Few more extraordinary men have ever lived; an no memoirist gives us a more vivid impression of the social background of his period
(Peter Quennell )Book Description
The complete memoirs of Casanova—available for the first time in paperback.
(2007)
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...and on and finally done.,
This review is from: History of My Life, Vols. 11 & 12 (Paperback)
Casanova's life was amazing, with enough adventure and intrigue to fill... well... volumes and volumes of text. Unfortunately, that's exactly what he decided to do, and while much of it is interesting and involving, after a while I just kept saying 'how much longer does this go on?' Certainly worth reading, but pace yourself or your head will go numb.
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I ENTER the ballroom with the beautiful Dona Ignacia, we take several turns around it, everywhere meeting the guard of soldiers with fixed bayonets who were walking slowly about, ready to apprehend any who should break the peace by quarreling. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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I ENTER the ballroom with the beautiful Dona Ignacia, we take several turns around it, everywhere meeting the guard of soldiers with fixed bayonets who were walking slowly about, ready to apprehend any who should break the peace by quarreling. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Don Diego, Count of Aranda, State Inquisitors, Venetian Ambassador, Donna Lucrezia, History of My Life, Cardinal de Bernis, King of Spain, Signor Zaguri, Duchess of Fiano, Grand Duke, Signor Dandolo, Princess of Santa Croce, Venetian Consul, Venetian State, Volume Eleven, Buen Retiro, Count Ricla, Don Francisco, Donna Leonilda, Medina Celi, Cavaliere Morosini, Count Medini, Dofia Ignacia, King Carlos New!
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