History of My Life, Volumes 11-12; Volume 1112

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Award-winning translation of the complete memoirs of Casanova available for the first time in paperback.

The last two volumes of Casanova's account of his extraordinary life include the story of his imprisonment in Buen Retiro, his trip to Madrid and his affair with Doņa Ignacia, his journey to Barcelona and his detention in the Tower, his encounter with Lord Baltimore, and his serious illness in Aix-en-Provence when he is taken care of by a mysterious woman who turns out to the servant of one of his first loves, Henriette.

Because every previous edition of Casanova's Memoirs 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.

 

Contents

Volume
11
My amour with Doņa Ignacia the gentlemancobblers
26
Campomanes Olavides Sierra Morena Aranjuez Mengs
37
page
69
page
98
page
127
page
187
page
218
Volume 12
page 33
33
The Florentine Emilia married Scholastica Armellina at the ball
59
EXTRACT FROM CHAPTERS IV
90
page 112
112
The Dowager Electress of Saxony and Farinelli La Sclopitz Nina
138
Pittoni Zaguri The Procurator Morosini The Venetian Consul
186
page 214
214

page
252
page
282
NOTES page 825
NOTES page 239
239
REVISIONS page 271
271
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About the author (1997)

Giacomo Casanova was 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 Iliad into Italian and collaborated with Da Ponte on the libretto for Mozart's Don Giovanni. He retired in 1785 to the castle of a friend—Count Waldstein of Bohemia—in order to write his memoirs.