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...
Main Author: | Damrosch, Leopold (Author) |
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Language: | English |
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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 |