Adventurer : the life and times of Giacomo Casanova / Leo Damrosch.

The iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was a storied adventurer through the Enlightenment's shadowy underside. Known as a serial seducer, he was also an aspiring priest, an army officer, a fortune teller, a con man, a violinist, a mathematician, a Masonic master, an entrepreneur, a diplom...

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Main Author: Damrosch, Leopold (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2022]
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Physical Description:vii, 422 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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