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Early Travels and family
Volumes I and II
Johns Hopkins University Press
May 1997
Featuring: Casanova
630 pages
ISBN: 0801856620
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Historical
"These are what Edmund Wilson has rightly called the most
interesting memoirs ever written. Indeed, Rousseau,
Stendhal, even Augustine, must take their proper place, a
half step behind this greatest of storytellers." -- Paul
Zweig, Nation In volumes 1 and 2, Casanova tells the story of his family,
his first loves, and his early travels. With the death of
his grandmother, he is sent to a seminary -- but is soon
expelled. He is briefly imprisoned in the fortress of Sant'
Andrea. After wandering from Naples to Rome in search of a
patron, he enters the service of Cardinal Acquaviva. About this edition: Because every previous edition of
Casanova's Memoirs had been abridged to suppress the
author's political and religious views and tame his vivid,
often racy, style, the literary world considered it a major
event when Willard R. Trask's translation of the complete
original text was published in six double volumes between
1966 and 1971. Trask's award-winning translation now appears
in paperback for the first time.
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