Casanova: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy
Autor Ian Kellyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2010 – vârsta de la 18 ani
"A sheer testament to the power of the written word." (The New York Times)
Giacomo Casanova's energy was dazzling. He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, and wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years before the French Revolution-as well as his affairs and sexual encounters with dozens of women and a handful of men.
Historian Ian Kelly draws on previously unpublished documents from the Venetian Inquisition, and documents by Casanova and his friends and lovers, which give new insights into his life and world. Kelly's research spans eighteenth-century Venice, Paris, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Rome, Prague, and the Czech castle where Casanova lived, wrote, and died.
From his devotion to kabbalah to his collaboration with Mozart and librettist Da Ponte on the opera Don Giovanni, from his vast appetite for food and sex to his training for the priesthood, Casanova reveled in the commedia dell'arte. And, as Kelly posits, it is from Casanova's careful study of its artifice and illusion that his success as both a libertine and a libertarian was founded.
Giacomo Casanova's energy was dazzling. He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, and wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years before the French Revolution-as well as his affairs and sexual encounters with dozens of women and a handful of men.
Historian Ian Kelly draws on previously unpublished documents from the Venetian Inquisition, and documents by Casanova and his friends and lovers, which give new insights into his life and world. Kelly's research spans eighteenth-century Venice, Paris, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Rome, Prague, and the Czech castle where Casanova lived, wrote, and died.
From his devotion to kabbalah to his collaboration with Mozart and librettist Da Ponte on the opera Don Giovanni, from his vast appetite for food and sex to his training for the priesthood, Casanova reveled in the commedia dell'arte. And, as Kelly posits, it is from Casanova's careful study of its artifice and illusion that his success as both a libertine and a libertarian was founded.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781585428441
ISBN-10: 1585428442
Pagini: 403
Dimensiuni: 142 x 209 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Tarcher
ISBN-10: 1585428442
Pagini: 403
Dimensiuni: 142 x 209 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Tarcher
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Notă biografică
Ian Kelly’s books Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Careme, the First Celebrity Chef and Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Man of Style were published to wide acclaim in both the United Kingdom and the United States. A writer, an actor, and the director of television documentaries, he writes frequently about food and travel for many British publications, among them The Times and The Guardian. He lives in London with his wife and their two children.
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Giacomo Casanova was one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of his or any age. Braggart or perfect lover? Conman or genius? He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years before the French Revolution - as well, of course, as his affairs and sexual encounters with dozens of women and a handful of men. His energy was dazzling.
Historian Ian Kelly draws on previously unpublished documents from the Venetian Inquisition, by Casanova, his friends and lovers, which give new insights into his life and world. His research spans eighteenth-century Europe.
This is the story if a man, but also of the book he wrote about himself. His own memoirs have brought him two centuries of notoriety. They have also changed forever the way we think and write about ourselves - and about sex. At the same time that revolutions - scientific, industrial, political and artistic - remade the world in the eighteenth century, Casanova created an intimate and exhaustive study of what he saw as the most revolutionary article of all - himself.
The world, and the way we look at ourselves in it, would never be the same again.
Giacomo Casanova was one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of his or any age. Braggart or perfect lover? Conman or genius? He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years before the French Revolution - as well, of course, as his affairs and sexual encounters with dozens of women and a handful of men. His energy was dazzling.
Historian Ian Kelly draws on previously unpublished documents from the Venetian Inquisition, by Casanova, his friends and lovers, which give new insights into his life and world. His research spans eighteenth-century Europe.
This is the story if a man, but also of the book he wrote about himself. His own memoirs have brought him two centuries of notoriety. They have also changed forever the way we think and write about ourselves - and about sex. At the same time that revolutions - scientific, industrial, political and artistic - remade the world in the eighteenth century, Casanova created an intimate and exhaustive study of what he saw as the most revolutionary article of all - himself.
The world, and the way we look at ourselves in it, would never be the same again.
Recenzii
A bedazzling jewel of sophisticated pleasures, the best book yet on the world's greatest lover.
enthralling . . . It is hard to conceive of a juicier, more informative account of social and sexual mores of 18th century Europe.
exhilarating . . . he has managed to make this story feel so fresh again.
'The thing is to dazzle,' wrote Casanova. In this enthralling book he dazzles once again, and so, too, does his biographer.
'Elegant and scrupulously researched, with an admirable feeling for the age'
sober, thoughtful and affectionate new biography
'Magisterial, utterly gripping . . . a vivid evocation of Georgian London.'
In Ian Kelly [Casanova] has at last found his Boswell . . . a great blast of a book, packed with energy and information, marinated in sympathy and understanding, and rippling with enthusiasm right down to the final footnote.
'Splendid . . . What makes this book much more than just a relaxed, racy biography is the way its author brings to life not just the man but also the time in which he lived.'
'Lush, funny, exhaustively researched and beautifully written'
'A wonderful melange of social history and biography. Vibrant, witty and fact-packed . . . something of a tour-de-force.'
'Beautifully formed and dressed, this is biography at its best.'
Superlative . . . a thoughtful, absorbing and hugely diverting book. Lushly illustrated, carefully researched and intelligently argued, this biography will entertain and enlighten.
In Kelly's hands, the story makes for a thrilling read
sparkling. . . . Kelly has a fine way with libertines and dandies.
Marvellous
delicious biography . . . He was probably, as he would be the first to admit, the most interesting man who ever lived, as this vivid and vibrant biography suggests
enthralling . . . It is hard to conceive of a juicier, more informative account of social and sexual mores of 18th century Europe.
exhilarating . . . he has managed to make this story feel so fresh again.
'The thing is to dazzle,' wrote Casanova. In this enthralling book he dazzles once again, and so, too, does his biographer.
'Elegant and scrupulously researched, with an admirable feeling for the age'
sober, thoughtful and affectionate new biography
'Magisterial, utterly gripping . . . a vivid evocation of Georgian London.'
In Ian Kelly [Casanova] has at last found his Boswell . . . a great blast of a book, packed with energy and information, marinated in sympathy and understanding, and rippling with enthusiasm right down to the final footnote.
'Splendid . . . What makes this book much more than just a relaxed, racy biography is the way its author brings to life not just the man but also the time in which he lived.'
'Lush, funny, exhaustively researched and beautifully written'
'A wonderful melange of social history and biography. Vibrant, witty and fact-packed . . . something of a tour-de-force.'
'Beautifully formed and dressed, this is biography at its best.'
Superlative . . . a thoughtful, absorbing and hugely diverting book. Lushly illustrated, carefully researched and intelligently argued, this biography will entertain and enlighten.
In Kelly's hands, the story makes for a thrilling read
sparkling. . . . Kelly has a fine way with libertines and dandies.
Marvellous
delicious biography . . . He was probably, as he would be the first to admit, the most interesting man who ever lived, as this vivid and vibrant biography suggests