The Story of My Life
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Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover of the Western world, but a supreme story teller. He lived a life stranger than most fictions, and the tale of his own adventures is his most compelling story, and one…
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This memoir of the world’s most prolific lover and traveler is one of the best descriptors of life in 18th-century Europe. Similar to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions, this book is an immanently readable and occasionally embarrassing experience of being exposed to a man’s most private thoughts and, in a word, confessions.
The experiences of Casanova are fascinating, if problematic, by today’s standards. The degree to which sexual relationships between men and women have stayed the same (while changing profoundly in other ways) is stunning to witness in the story, which sees Casanova jumping from mistress to mistress, falling in and…
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