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History of My Life

Giacomo Casanova

Form
Form Autobiography
Year
Year 1822
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 1300

A charming Venetian adventurer talks, seduces, gambles and escapes his way across eighteenth-century Europe, one scandal ahead of the law, and ends up broke and alone, writing it all down as a librarian in a Bohemian castle.

I was born nine months afterwards, on the 2nd of April, 1725.
History of My Life, Giacomo Casanova

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