Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova - Hardcover
by Leo Damrosch
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300248289ISBN-10:300248288UPC:9780300248289Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Modern, EuropeBook Topic:18th Century, ItalySize:9.51 x 6.46 x 1.55 inchesWeight:1.6711Product ID:SCDS2PPDJQ
Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300248289ISBN-10:300248288UPC:9780300248289Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Modern, EuropeBook Topic:18th Century, ItalySize:9.51 x 6.46 x 1.55 inchesWeight:1.6711Product ID:SCDS2PPDJQ
Leo Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus at Harvard University. His many books include The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age and Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World, winner of the National Book Critics Circle award and Pulitzer finalist for biography. He lives in Newton, MA.
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