Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman
, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover of the West
ern world, but a supreme story teller. He lived a life stranger than most fictio
ns, and the tale of his own adventures is his most compelling story, and one tha
t remained unfinished at the time of his death. This new selection contains all
the highlights of Casanova's life: his youth in Venice as a precocious ecclesias
tic; his dabbling in the occult; his imprisonment and thrilling escape; and his
amorous conquests, ranging from noblewomen to nuns.
