Volume 54, Number 9 · May 31, 2007
The Pleasures of Casanova
By Michael Dirda
History of My Life
by Giacomo Casanova, translated from the French by Willard R. Trask
Johns Hopkins University Press, six volumes, 4,289 pp., $21.95 each (paper)
History of My Life
by Giacomo Casanova, translated from the French by Willard R. Trask, abridged by Peter Washington, with an introduction by John Julius Norwich
Everyman's Library, 1,429 pp., $35.00
Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved
by Judith Summers
Bloomsbury, 365 pp., $25.95
In the popular imagination the Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) is, above all, a smooth operator, the archetypal 'man who loved women'—even if no one today could possibly believe such a sweet talker. Or could they?
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