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Also by Giacomo Casanova:

History of My Life, May 1997
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History of My Life, May 1997
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History of My Life, May 1997
Trade Size (reprint)
History of My Life, May 1997
Trade Size (reprint)
History of My Life, May 1997
Trade Size (reprint)
History of My Life, May 1997
Trade Size (reprint)

History of My Life
Giacomo Casanova

England, Prussia, Russia and Poland Visits

Volume IX and X
Johns Hopkins University Press
May 1997
Featuring: Casanova
812 pages
ISBN: 0801856663
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Historical | Non-Fiction Biography

"All that a life of this kind can contain Casanova put into his story. And how much of the world! -- the eighteenth century as you get it in no other book; society from top to bottom; Europe from England to Russia, a more brilliant variety of characters than you can find in any eighteenth-century novel." -- Edmund Wilson

Volumes 9 and 10 contain descriptions of Casanova's first visits to England, Prussia, Russia, and Poland. In all these countries he gained access to the Courts. Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia join the roster of potentates entertained and charmed by the adventurer. Though beginning to age, and ruing it, Casanova still manages to exert a powerful attraction on women.

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