History of My Life

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JHU Press, May 22, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 728 pages

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

In volumes 1 and 2, Casanova tells the story of his family, his first loves, and his early travels. With the death of his grandmother, he is sent to a seminary—but is soon expelled. He is briefly imprisoned in the fortress of Sant' Andrea. After wandering from Naples to Rome in search of a patron, he enters the service of Cardinal Acquaviva.

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

INTRODUCTION page
8
PREFACE page
25
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41
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52
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75
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96
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130
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178
page 24
24
page 45
45
page 61
61
Progress of my amour I go to Otranto I enter the service
137
page 167
167
page 184
184
CHAPTER VIII
201
CHAPTER IX
235

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282
Volume 2
NOTES page
23
CHAPTER X
267
page 293
293
NOTES
307
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