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Coming to the big screen this January—Buena Vista’s Casanova, starring Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller
Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, Good Samaritan, spy, swashbuckler, self-made gentleman, entrepreneur, poet, translator, philosopher, and general bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover the Western world has known but also astoryteller of the first order.
Coming to the big screen this January—Buena Vista’s Casanova, starring Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller
Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, Good Samaritan, spy, swashbuckler, self-made gentleman, entrepreneur, poet, translator, philosopher, and general bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover the Western world has known but also astoryteller of the first order.
The Penguin Classics edition of Casanova’s The Story of My Life features a brilliant translation by Stephen Sartarelli and Sophie Hawkes and provides readers with the most famous episodes as well as the overall shape of Casanova’s monumental memoir in one beguiling, unique volume.
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About the Author
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born in Venice, the son of actors who wanted him to become a priest.
Stephen Sartarelli is a poet and translator of a wide range of literary works from Italian and French.
Sophie Hawkes is an artist, printmaker, and translator.
Gilberto Pizzamiglio is professor of Italian literature at the University of Venice. He has written on Goldoni, Gozzi, and Foscolo. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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- The Story of My Life (Penguin Classics) by Giacomo Casanova on 5 pages
- Selected Writings of an Eighteenth-Century Venetian Woman of Letters (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) by Elisabetta Caminer Turra in Front Matter, and page 131
- Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History Of French Culture (Critical Authors and Issues) by Thomas M. Kavanagh on page 85, and Back Matter
- Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and License in the Eighteenth-Century by Lisa O'Connell on page 59, and page 245
- Federico Fellini: His Life and Work by Tullio Kezich on page 317