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Casanova
Author: John Masters
Narrator: Robert Whitfield
Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 03/30/2009
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Synopsis
Giacomo Casanovas reputation rests largely on his obsession with women, but he was much more than the great eighteenthcentury lover. Lawyer, mathematician, poet, translator, and librarian who was fluent in several languages, he was described by one contemporary as the most civilized man in Europe. That he was also a con man, cabalist, spy, revengetaker, and experienced prisoner only enhances his appeal as one who personified the extreme social and moral contradictions of the time.
In chronicling the life of this bastard son of Venetian actors, Masters draws from Casanova's own highly expansive memoirs, unavailable until the 1960s, and shows that many of the most racy and unlikely events in his adventurefilled life story have been corroborated by fact.