Memoirs (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Giovanni Jacopo (or Giacomo) C Seingalt
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1725-1773
- Setting: Europe and the Near East
- Principal Characters: Casanova, Teresa, C. C., Madame La Marquise D’urfe, Therese Trenti, M. De Bragadin
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, Writing, Eighteenth century, Revenge, Adventure, Middle East, Old age or elderly people, Pleasure
- Locales: Roman Empire, Rome, ancient
In his MEMOIRS (MEMOIRES ECRITS PAR LUI-MEME), Casanova, who took for himself the additional name of Seingalt, set forth his amazing life of adventures as he remembered them in his old age. Not everything in his reminiscences tallies with discoverable historical fact, either because the writer’s memory was faulty in his old age or because he colored the truth for the sake of a better story. In his autobiography Casanova reveals himself as a man ruled by pleasure, passion, and a delicate sense of revenge. He was superficial, amoral, proud, and sometimes extremely foolish. As he...
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