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Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of My Escape from the Prisons of the Republic of Venice Called the Leads written by Giacomo Casanova and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781495284359
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (843 download)
Download or read book The Story of My Escape written by Giacomo Casanova and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe's greatest adventurer. Thrown into an escape-proof prison for a crime he probably committed. The question is, which crime? In 1755, the infamous Giacomo Casanova was locked up without trial in Venice's notorious Leads prison. Over 15 months he battled disease, madness, boredom, grotesque gaolers, bad books and fellow prisoners, before attempting the most audacious and typically flamboyant escape in history. This is Casanova's own account of the escape bid that made him a celebrity across Europe, full of his unique wit and philosophy, translated into English in full for the first time.
Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (342 download)
Download or read book I Piombi written by Giacomo Casanova and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Hoffmann
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271088354
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Paradoxes of Posterity written by Benjamin Hoffmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impetus for literary creation has often been explained as an attempt to transcend the mortality of the human condition through a work addressed to future generations. Failing to obtain literal immortality, or to turn their hope toward the spiritual immortality promised by religious systems, literary creators seek a symbolic form of perpetuity granted to the intellectual side of their person in the memory of those not yet born while they write. In this book, Benjamin Hoffmann illuminates the paradoxes inherent in the search for symbolic immortality, arguing that the time has come to find a new answer to a perennial question: Why do people write? Exploring the fields of digital humanities and book history, Hoffmann describes posterity as a network of interconnected memories that constantly evolves by reserving a variable and continuously renegotiated place for works and authors of the past. In other words, the perpetual safeguarding of texts is delegated to a collectivity that is nonexistent at the moment when a writer addresses it, one whose nature is characterized by impermanence and instability. Focusing on key works by Denis Diderot, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, Giacomo Casanova, François-René de Chateaubriand, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Hoffmann considers the authors’ representations of posterity, the representation of authors by posterity, and how to register and preserve works in the network of memories. In doing so, Hoffmann reveals the three great paradoxes in the quest for symbolic immortality: the paradoxes of belief, of identity, and of mediation. Theoretically sophisticated and convincingly argued, this book contends that there is only one truly serious literary problem: the transmission of texts to posterity. It will appeal to specialists in literature, in particular eighteenth-century French literature, as well as scholars and students of philosophy and book history.
Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140439151
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Story of My Life written by Giacomo Casanova and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 that remained unfinished at the time of his death. This new selection contains all the highlights of Casanova's life: his youth in Venice as a precocious ecclesiastic; his dabbling in the occult; his imprisonment and thrilling escape; and his amorous conquests, ranging from noblewomen to nuns.
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Publisher : Edizioni Fiesolane
ISBN 13 : 295628875X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Casanova in Tuscany written by and published by Edizioni Fiesolane. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Petersburg to Madrid, from London to Constantinople, Giacomo Casanova traveled throughout Europe, sojourning four times in Tuscany
Author : Margaret Doody
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812239843
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Tropic of Venice written by Margaret Doody and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this journey through the work of artists and the writings of travelers who have been both smitten and repelled by the influence of Venice, Margaret Doody explores ways in which this is a city profoundly unlike any other on earth—and one that simultaneously unsettles and reveals many of our most deeply rooted cultural values.
Author : Rena M. Hoisington
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691229791
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Aquatint written by Rena M. Hoisington and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How an ingenious printmaking technique became a cross-cultural phenomenon in Enlightenment Europe Driven by a growing interest in collecting and multiplying drawings, artists and amateurs in the eighteenth century sought a new technique capable of replicating the subtlety of ink, wash, and watercolor. They devised an innovative and versatile new medium—aquatint—which would spread in use across Europe within a few decades, its distinctive dark tones making possible a remarkable variety of ingenious imagery. In this illuminating book, Rena M. Hoisington traces how the aquatint technique flourished as a cross-cultural and cosmopolitan phenomenon that contributed to the rise of art publishing, connoisseurship, leisure travel, drawing instruction, and the popularity of neoclassicism. She offers new insights into sophisticated experiments by artists such as Francisco de Goya, Katharina Prestel, Paul Sandby, and Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. Marvelously illustrated with rare works from the National Gallery of Art’s collection of early aquatints, this engaging book provides a fresh look at how printmaking contributed to a vibrant exchange of information and ideas in Europe during the Enlightenment. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC October 24, 2021–February 21, 2022
Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476716528
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Casanova written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sexy, surprising, funny, insightful, and wildly entertaining” (Huffington Post)—the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova, the impoverished boy who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius in decadent eighteenth-century Europe. Today, “Casanova” is a synonym for “great lover,” yet the real story of this remarkable figure is little known. A figure straight out of a Henry Fielding novel, Giacomo Casanova was erotic, brilliant, impulsive, and desperate for recognition; a self-destructive genius. Over the course of his lifetime, he claimed to have seduced more than one hundred women, among them married women, young women in convents, girls just barely in their teens, women of high and low birth alike. Abandoned by his mother, an actress and courtesan, Casanova was raised by his illiterate grandmother, coming of age in a Venice filled with spies and political intrigue. He was intellectually curious and read forbidden books, for which he was jailed. He staged a dramatic escape from Venice’s notorious prison, I Piombi, the only person known to have done so. He then fled to France, ingratiated himself at the royal court, and invented the national lottery that still exists to this day. He crisscrossed Europe, landing for a while in St. Petersburg, where he was admitted to the court of Catherine the Great. He corresponded with Voltaire and met Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte—assisting them as they composed the timeless opera Don Giovanni. And he wrote what many consider the greatest memoir of the era, the twelve-volume Story of My Life. Laurence Bergreen’s Casanova recounts this astonishing life in rich, intimate detail, and at the same time, paints a dazzling portrait of eighteenth-century Europe, filled with a cast characters from serving girls to kings and courtiers, “great fun for any history lover” (Kirkus Reviews).
Author : Derek Parker
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786782375
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Conversations with Casanova written by Derek Parker and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagined by one of the world's leading experts on Casanova, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of history's most famous lover. A quiet chat with Casanova turns into a catalogue of racy encounters set in 18th-century Venice and other cities ... and we can even ask questions! You'll find out just how he got himself both in and out of some extremely sticky situations, from debt and imprisonment, to confrontations with jealous husbands and even heartbreak. Renowned as a great lover and seducer, Casanova was far more than a bed hopping rake. He founded the world's first national lottery, discussed theories of taxation with Frederick the Great, debated the merits of the Gregorian calendar with Catherine the Great, talked theology with Pope Clement XIII, lectured on Horace and Homer, and gave a public recital of his own poem on the Passion of the Christ. He was also an accomplished swindler, an extraordinary wit, a brilliant philosopher, a formidable duellist, and a notable spy. The impressive scale of Casanova's many gifts - and vices - is brought brilliantly to life in this innovative biography. A concise biographical essay is followed by a scintillating dialogue that is as historically rigorous as it is entertaining. As Dita Von Teese says in her Foreword: "In my most amorous fantasies, I spend languid days and glittering nights with a true 'Casanova'-- a man with a heartfelt passion for life, a thirst for knowledge and adventure, and of course a lust for refined romance." Be seduced by this brilliant book.
Author : Leo Damrosch
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248288
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Adventurer written by Leo Damrosch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch"Fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentness, ' that 'joyful eagerness' for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova--and reading about him."--Gregory Dowling, Wall Street Journal "A nuanced, deftly contextualized biography of an adventurer, an opportunist, and a man of voracious appetites . . . another top-notch work from Damrosch."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The life of the iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) has never been told in the depth it deserves. An alluring representative of the Enlightenment's shadowy underside, Casanova was an aspiring priest, an army officer, a fortune teller, a con man, a magus, a violinist, a mathematician, a Masonic master, an entrepreneur, a diplomat, a gambler, a spy--and the first to tell his own story. In his vivid autobiography Histoire de Ma Vie, he recorded at least a hundred and twenty love affairs, as well as dramatic sagas of duels, swindles, arrests, and escapes. He knew kings and an empress, Catherine the Great, and most of the famous writers of the time, including Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin. Drawing on seldom used materials, including the original French and Italian primary sources, and probing deeply into the psychology, self-conceptions, and self-deceptions of one of the world's most famous con men and seducers, Leo Damrosch offers a gripping, mature, and devastating account of an Enlightenment man, freed from the bounds of moral convictions.
Author : Paula Hildebrandt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319975021
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Performing Citizenship written by Paula Hildebrandt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investigates a different aspect of citizenship, such as identity and belonging, rights and responsibilities, bodies and materials, agencies and spaces, and limitations and interventions. It rewrites and rethinks the many-layered concept of citizenship by emphasising the performative tensions produced by various uses, occupations, interpretations and framings.
Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788895598093
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)
Download or read book My Escape from Venice Prison written by Giacomo Casanova and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Casanova's Escape from the Leads written by Giacomo Casanova and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virginia Paola Lalli
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546229825
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Italian Holidays: Travel Notes written by Virginia Paola Lalli and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the cannon whose sound does not elicit fear, but rather, enchants. On the ceremony awarding the keys to the city to a rather exceptional governor. On that boy from Genoa who dreamed of sailing across seas, his quest for funds, his unlikely crew, and the impossible ocean storms. On the most beautiful road in the world, today a UNESCO World Heritage site. On Fra Girolamo Savonarolas government in Florence during Medicean times. On the Venetian rooms of the Inquisition and Tintorettos painting. On the apostles words in Leonardos painting of the Last Supper. On rotating banquet halls: the coenatio rotunda of the imperial Domus Aurea. On the locations of the Roman Holiday movie and the story of a young Roman noblewoman of the 1600s. On the black tulip in the gardens of Cardinal Scipione Borghese. On how the stadium was closed for ten years in 59 CE, after the match between Pompeii and Nuceria. On the water features of a villa built in the 1500s.
Author : Leonard Roy Frank
Publisher : Random House Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780375408885
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Quotationary written by Leonard Roy Frank and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780307290359
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Random House Webster's Quotationary written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive collection of quotations. Arranged by subject, easy to use. More new quotes than any other book.
