CASANOVA MEMOIRS: The Story of My Life

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THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT - THE STORY OF MY LIFE: The Extraordinary Memoirs, Adventures, Loves and Escapes of an 18th-Century Adventurer. Few autobiographies have captured the imagination of the world like The Story of My Life, the extraordinary memoirs of Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798). Born in Venice in the eighteenth century, Casanova lived a life that seems almost impossible to believe. He was a priest, soldier, musician, gambler, writer, intellectual, diplomat, adventurer, prisoner, fugitive and notorious lover. He moved through the courts, salons, convents, gambling houses and prisons of Europe, crossing paths with aristocrats, artists, philosophers, politicians and women from every level of society. But Casanova's memoirs are far more than a catalogue of romantic encounters. They form a remarkable portrait of eighteenth-century Europe—a world of aristocratic privilege, religious authority, political intrigue, elaborate soci