Can I read Casanova : the World of a Seductive Genius on EtoBox?

Casanova : the World of a Seductive Genius by Laurence Bergreen is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Casanova : the World of a Seductive Genius about?

“Sexy, surprising, funny, insightful, and wildly entertaining” (Huffington Post)—the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova, the impoverished boy who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius in decadent eighteenth-century Europe. Today, “Casanova” is a synonym for “great lover,” yet the real story of this remarkable figure is little known. A figure straight out of a Henry Fielding novel, Giacomo Casanova was erotic, brilliant, impulsive, and desperate for recognition; a self-destructive genius. Over the course of his lifetime, he claimed to have seduced more than one hundred women, among them married women, young women in convents, girls just barely in their teens, women of high and low birth alike. Abandoned by his mother, an actress and courtesan, Casanova was raised by his illiterate grandmother, coming of age in a Venice filled with spies and political intrigue. He was intellectually curious and read forbidden books, for which he was jailed. He staged a dramatic escape from Venice’s notorious prison, I Piombi, the only person known to have done so. He then fled to France, ingratiated himself at the royal court, and invented the national lottery

Who reads Casanova : the World of a Seductive Genius?

Author

Laurence Bergreen

Publisher

Simon & Schuster; Simon Schuster

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476716497

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Buddhism, Memoir

Rating

3.37 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14