THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT - Adventures in the South: Volume Four of the complete and unabridged English translation - Illustrated with Old Engravings (Volume 4)
Автор:Giacomo Girolamo Casanova Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 368 ISBN: 1475141327 THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT — The Eternal Quest — THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. These memoires were not written for children. "...these Memoirs are perhaps the most valuable document which we possess on the society of the eighteenth century; they are the history of a unique life, a unique personality, one of the greatest of autobiographies; as a record of adventures, they are more entertaining than Gil Blas, or Monte Cristo, or any of the imaginary travels, and escapes, and masquerades in life, which have been written in imitation of them." Arthur Symons Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He was so famous as a...
