{"product_id":"history-of-my-life-9780801856648","title":"History of My Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward-winning translation of the complete memoirs of Casanova available for the first time in paperback.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn volumes 5 and 6, Casanova brings his flight from the Inquisitor's prison in Venice to a happy conclusion. Exiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and Paris, where he establishes himself as a cabalist, makes a fortune in Holland, helps start the French State Lottery, goes on to Switzerland where he meets Voltaire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause every previous edition of Casanova's \u003ci\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/i\u003e had been abridged to suppress the author's political and religious views and tame his vivid, often racy, style, the literary world considered it a major event when Willard R. Trask's translation of the complete original text was published in six double volumes between 1966 and 1971. Trask's award-winning translation now appears in paperback for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/22\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.06h x 5.12w x 1.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801856648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiacomo Casanova \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Venice in 1725. His parents, both actors, wanted him to become a priest, but their hopes were dashed when, at sixteen, he was expelled from seminary for immoral misconduct. Probably best-known for his reputation as a womanizer, Casanova was in turn a secretary, a soldier in the Venetian army, a preacher, an alchemist, a gambler, a violinist, a lottery director, and a spy. He translated Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e into Italian and collaborated with Da Ponte on the libretto for Mozart's \u003ci\u003eDon Giovanni\u003c\/i\u003e. He retired in 1785 to the castle of a friend--Count Waldstein of Bohemia--in order to write his memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40239050915955,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":46.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_17c36ea5-c5e4-465b-8181-da6df7d45f07.jpg?v=1657113574","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/history-of-my-life-9780801856648","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}