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Author : Pompeo Molmenti
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Carteggi Casanoviani written by Pompeo Molmenti and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pompeo Molmenti
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Carteggi Casanoviani written by Pompeo Molmenti and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rodney Bolt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596919825
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Librettist of Venice written by Rodney Bolt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte was the proprietor of a small grocery store in New York. But since his birth into an Italian Jewish family in 1749, he had already been a priest, a poet, the lover of many women, a scandalous Enlightenment thinker banned from teaching in Venice, the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas, a collaborator with Salieri, a friend of Casanova, and a favorite of Emperor Joseph II. He would go on to establish New York City's first opera house and be the first professor of Italian at Columbia University. An inspired innovator but a hopeless businessman, who loved with wholehearted loyalty and recklessness, Da Ponte was one of the early immigrants to live out the American dream. In Rodney Bolt's rollicking and extensively researched biography, Da Ponte's picaresque life takes readers from Old World courts and the back streets of Venice, Vienna, and London to the New World promise of New York City. Two hundred and fifty years after Mozart's birth, the life and legacy of his librettist Da Ponte are as astonishing as ever.
Author : William Gifford
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Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Quarterly Review written by William Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 512 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 : Andrea Di Robilant
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307424553
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book A Venetian Affair written by Andrea Di Robilant and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the waning days of Venice’s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city’s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father. Because of their dramatically different positions in society, they could not marry. And Giustiniana’s mother, afraid that an affair would ruin her daughter’s chances to form a more suitable union, forbade them to see each other. Her prohibition only fueled their desire and so began their torrid, secret seven-year-affair, enlisting the aid of a few intimates and servants (willing to risk their own positions) to shuttle love letters back and forth and to help facilitate their clandestine meetings. Eventually, Giustiniana found herself pregnant and she turned for help to the infamous Casanova–himself infatuated with her. Two and half centuries later, the unbelievable story of this star-crossed couple is told in a breathtaking narrative, re-created in part from the passionate, clandestine letters Andrea and Giustiniana wrote to each other.
Author : J. A. Rogers
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819575542
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Sex and Race, Volume 1 written by J. A. Rogers and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the concept of race, the origins of racial differentiation, and the root of the "color problem." Rogers surmised that a large percentage of ethnic differences are the result of sociological factors and in these volumes he gathered what he called "the bran of history"—the uncollected, unexamined history of black people—in the hope that these neglected parts of history would become part of the mainstream body of Western history. Drawing on a vast amount of research, Rogers was attempting to point out the absurdity of racial divisions. Indeed his belief in one race—humanity—precluded the idea of several different ethnic races. The series marshals the data he had collected as evidence to prove his underlying humanistic thesis: that people were one large family without racial boundaries. Self-trained and self-published, Rogers and his work were immensely popular and influential during his day, even cited by Malcolm X. The books are presented here in their original editions.
Author : S. Guy Endore
Publisher : New York : J. Day Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Casanova written by S. Guy Endore and published by New York : J. Day Company. This book was released on 1930 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John A. Rice
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226711256
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera written by John A. Rice and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morris Bishop
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Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book A Gallery of Eccentrics; Or, A Set of Twelve Originals & Extravagants from Elagabalus written by Morris Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edouard Maynial
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Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Casanova and His Time written by Edouard Maynial and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : April Fitzlyon
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714544876
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Lorenzo Da Ponte written by April Fitzlyon and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the revised edition of April FitzLyon's celebrated biography of Mozart's librettist, who provided the brilliant, witty texts for The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte. Born a Jew in the Republic of Venice, Da Ponte became a Christian before involving himself in political and amorous intrigue and having to flee, like his friend Casanova, to Vienna, pursued by both the Inquisition and jealous husbands. As court poet to Joseph II he succeeded Metastasio and worked with many composers, until his escapades forced him to move on to London, where he managed the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. After a series of financial disasters, he moved to New York, where he worked several jobs before becoming a professor at Columbia. He helped to introduce Italian opera to the USA and in old age wrote his notoriously unreliable memoirs.This fascinating portrait provides a colourful picture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life in four capitals, combining musical and literary history with an account of the social life of the period.
Author : Andrea Di Robilant
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400095115
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lucia written by Andrea Di Robilant and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1787, the beautiful Lucia is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. We witness Lucia's painful series of miscarriages and the pressure on her to produce an heir; her impassioned affair with an Austrian officer; the glamour and strain of her career as a hostess in Vienna; and her amazing firsthand account of the defeat of Napoleon in 1814. With his brave and articulate heroine, Andrea di Robilant has once again reached across the centuries, and deep into his own past, to bring history to rich and vivid life on the page.
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Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
