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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 : 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 : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)
Download or read book My escape fron Venice Prison written by Giacomo Casanova and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 :
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 : 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 : Michael Dahl
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1434204901
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Escape from the Pop-up Prison written by Michael Dahl and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl follows a group of strangers inside the giant Library of Doom. The strangers want their evil friends released from the pages of a pop-up book. Can the Librarian stop them before the world's deadliest criminals are set free?
Author : Ian Kelly
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440642516
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Casanova written by Ian Kelly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Casanova, noted author Ian Kelly traces the life of Giacomo Casanova, a man whose very name is synonymous with sensuality, seduction and sexual prowess. But Casanova was more than just a great lover. A businessman, diplomat, spy, and philosopher, he authored more than twenty books, including a translation of The Iliad. Confidant to many infamous characters—including Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire, and Catherine the Great—Casanova was undoubtedly charismatic. But how exactly did he seduce himself into infamy? In this richly drawn portrait, Casanova emerges as very much a product of eighteenth-century Venice. He reveled in its commedia del arte and Kelly posits that his successes as both a libertine and a libertarian grew from his careful study of its artifice and illusion. Food, travel, sex: Casanova’s great passions are timeless ones and Kelly brings to life in full flavor the grandeur of his exploits. He also articulates the fascinating personal philosophy that inspired Casanova’s quest to bed all manner of women. A riveting look at the life of the most legendary lover of all time, this is destined to become the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova.
Author : David M. Guss
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 150982958X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram written by David M. Guss and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram by David M. Guss is a riveting account of the wartime exploits of the Scotsman. It is a tale of courage in the face of extraordinary odds and a testament to one man's dogged determination never to give up. ‘The greatest serial escaper of the Second World War’ – The Times 'Endlessly fascinating. Cram's story sizzles with adventure' – Giles Milton, Sunday Times In November 1941 Lt Alastair Cram was taken prisoner in North Africa as a devastating tank battle unfolded as Operation Crusader struggled to relieve Tobruk. His capture began a four year-long odyssey as he passed through twelve different POW camps, three Gestapo prisons and one asylum. Determined to regain his freedom, he became a serial escapee fleeing his captors no fewer than twenty-one times. The most dramatic of these attempts was from Gavi, the ‘Italian Colditz’. This maximum-security prison built inside a thousand year old stone fortress was for the pericolosi, those classified as the ‘most dangerous’ prisoners due to their unrelenting desire to escape. It was here that Alastair met David Stirling, the legendary founder of the SAS, and cooked up the plan for the ‘Cistern Tunnel’, one of the most audacious but little-known mass escape attempts of the entire war. ______________ 'Fascinating' – Daily Express 'An enthralling portrait of true courage' Sunday Express S Magazine
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 : Sandor Marai
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375712968
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Casanova in Bolzano written by Sandor Marai and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-11-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose Embers became an international bestseller—a sensuous, suspenseful, aphoristic novel about the world’s most notorious seducer and the encounter that changes him forever. In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escapes from a Venetian prison and resurfaces in the Italian village of Bolzano. Here he receives an unwelcome visitor: the aging but still fearsome Duke of Parma, who years before had defeated Casanova in a duel over a ravishing girl named Francesca and spared his life on condition that he never see her again. Now the duke has taken Francesca as his wife—and intercepted a love letter from her to his old rival. Rather than kill Casanova on the spot, he makes him a startling offer, one that is logical, perverse, and irresistible. Turning an historical episode into a dazzling fictional exploration of the clasp of desire and death, Casanova in Bolzano is further proof that Sándor Márai is one of the most distinctive voices of the twentieth century.
Author : G. Geltner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691187681
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Medieval Prison written by G. Geltner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology that stressed man's ability to reform his soul. The Medieval Prison challenges this view by tracing the institution's emergence to a much earlier period beginning in the late thirteenth century, and in doing so provides a unique view of medieval prison life. G. Geltner carefully reconstructs life inside the walls of prisons in medieval Venice, Florence, Bologna, and elsewhere in Europe. He argues that many enduring features of the modern prison--including administration, finance, and the classification of inmates--were already developed by the end of the fourteenth century, and that incarceration as a formal punishment was far more widespread in this period than is often realized. Geltner likewise shows that inmates in medieval prisons, unlike their modern counterparts, enjoyed frequent contact with society at large. The prison typically stood in the heart of the medieval city, and inmates were not locked away but, rather, subjected to a more coercive version of ordinary life. Geltner explores every facet of this remarkable prison experience--from the terror of an inmate's arrest to the moment of his release, escape, or death--and the ways it was viewed by contemporary observers. The Medieval Prison rewrites penal history and reveals that medieval society did not have a "persecuting mentality" but in fact was more nuanced in defining and dealing with its marginal elements than is commonly recognized.
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 : Ymal Oswin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book An Unrecognised King written by Ymal Oswin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Escapes of Casanova and Latude from Prison written by Giacomo Casanova and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Jonglez
Publisher : Editions Jonglez
ISBN 13 : 9782361952266
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Secret Venice written by Thomas Jonglez and published by Editions Jonglez. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years of research were needed to conceive this exceptional guide, which will allow all lovers of Venice and the Venetians themselves to start exploring the most extraordinary city in the world, away from the beaten path.
Author : Marquis de Sade
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487533063
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Journey to Italy written by Marquis de Sade and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1775, the young Count de Sade decided to turn a flight from legal trouble into an opportunity to undertake the "grand tour." He transformed his sojourns in Florence, Rome, Naples, and their environs into a philosophical travelogue; alongside advice on where to go and what to see, his Journey to Italy would include analyses of local customs and institutions, history and politics, natural phenomena, and the development of the arts. For today’s readers, Journey to Italy provides remarkable portraits of major Italian cities and the surrounding countryside, vivid accounts of aristocratic and popular entertainments, and a clear sense of what it was like to be a tourist in eighteenth-century Italy – from scams, rough roads, and unreliable guidebooks to learned interlocutors, balls, and nights at the opera. We witness Sade learning about the lives of Roman emperors, the machinations and misdeeds of pontiffs, the power struggles of the Medici, the ancient libertine world revealed by the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii, and a host of artistic examples and cultural practices – the material he would soon metamorphose into trenchant satire, gothic horror, and violent sexual fantasy. This book presents the first English translation of Sade’s unfinished and unpolished Journey to Italy along with his extensive dossiers of notations, sketches, plans, and correspondence. The translation is accompanied by extensive explanatory annotations and preceded by a critical introduction that provides biographical, artistic, historical, and intellectual context for Sade’s fascinating project, connecting his travels in and writings about Italy to his later famous and controversial works.
