Adventurer - The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

The iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was a storied adventurer through the Enlightenment's shadowy underside. Known as a serial seducer, he was also an aspiring priest, army officer, con man, diplomat, gambler, and spy. Drawing on seldom used materials, Leo Damrosch brings alive Casanova and the eighteenth-century world he inhabited.

About the author

Leo Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus at Harvard University. His many books include The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age and Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World, winner of the National Book Critics Circle award and Pulitzer finalist for biography. He lives in Newton, MA.

Product details

• Authors: Leo Damrosch, Damrosch Leo
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9780300271027
• ISBN: 978-0-300-27102-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, General & world history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, General and world history, Biography: historical, political and military, C 1700 To C 1800