{"product_id":"history-of-my-life-volumes-1-and-2-revised","title":"History of My Life: Volumes 1 and 2 (Revised)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHistory of My Life: Volumes 1 and 2 (Revised)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGiacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780801856624\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eJohns Hopkins University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1997\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003en edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eGiacomo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725. His parents, both actors, wanted him to become a priest, but their hopes were dashed when, at sixteen, he was expelled from the seminary for immoral misconduct. Probably best-known for his reputation as a womanizer, Casanova was in turn a secretary, a soldier in the Venetian army, a preacher, an alchemist, a gambler, a violinist, a lottery director, and a spy. He translated Homer's Iliad into Italian and collaborated with Da Ponte on the libretto for Mozart's Don Giovanni. He retired in 1785 to the castle of a friend - Count Waldstein of Bohemia - in order to write his memoirs. Because every previous edition of Casonova's Memoirs had been abridged to suppress the author's political and religious views and tame his vivid, often racy, style, the literary world considered it a major event when Willard R. Trask's translation of the complete original text was published in six double volumes between 1966 and 1971. Trask's award-winning translation now appears in paperback for the first time.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"History of My Life: Volumes 1 and 2 (Revised) | Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova | Paperback | 9780801856624 | Used: Very Good | Biography 1655079 (temp: 26)","offer_id":48883982106776,"sku":"1655079","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61GAnhYNKKL.jpg?v=1776479781","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/history-of-my-life-volumes-1-and-2-revised","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}