Casanova: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy Tapa blanda - 2011
de Ian Kelly
"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Historian Ian Kelly draws on previously unpublished documents from the Venetian Inquisition, and documents by Casanova and his friends and lovers, which give new insights into his life and world.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.
Resumen
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Historian Ian Kelly draws on previously unpublished documents from the Venetian Inquisition, and documents by Casanova and his friends and lovers, which give new insights into his life and world.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.
Detalles
- Título Casanova: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy
- Autor Ian Kelly
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 416
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Tarcherperigee
- Fecha de publicación 2011-01-20
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781585428441 / 1585428442
- Peso 0.87 libras (0.39 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.22 x 5.58 x 1.13 pulgadas (20.88 x 14.17 x 2.87 cm)
- Época de 18 a UP años
- Cursos 13 - UP
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Venice (Italy), Casanova, Giacomo
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2010035275
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- New York Times Book Review, 01/23/2011, Page 20
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