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Casanova's Alibi and Other Stories by Rafael Sabatini Pdf
This volume contains a collection of short stories that revolve around the adventures of Giacomo Casanova, the arch-scoundrel. He is known as the Prince of Adventurers. The book contains Preface - Casanova's Alibi - The Augmentation of Mercury - The Priest of Mars - The Oracle - Under the Leads - The Night of Escape - The Rooks and the Hawk - The Polish Duel - Casanova in Madrid - Post-Scriptum.
Giacomo di Casanova, the greatest of Italian—perhaps of all—adventurers, was born in Venice in April of 1725, the son of an actor of the San Samuele Theatre and the lovely daughter of a Venetian cobbler, who, as a result of her marriage, became herself an actress of some note. Clever, unscrupulous, and audacious, well-endowed by nature with a good exterior, a magnetic personality and a lively wit, he chose to make the world his oyster. By temperament something of a poet, something of a philosopher, something of a soldier, and entirely a gamester in every sense, he was a rogue by accident rather than design. A doctor of canon law, he knew Horace by heart, was familiar with natural science, richly stored with unusual knowledge, and as learned in the tricks of sharpers of all degrees. He accepted all adventures that came his way, rubbed shoulders with princes, and lay down with thieves, and was equally at home in palace and hovel. R.S.
Casanova's Alibi and Other Stories by Rafael Sabatini There can be little doubt--although it is not explicitly so stated in his memoirs--that it was the sight of the mast of a fruit-boat before the window of his prison that first aroused the notion in his fertile brain. But let us begin at the beginning of this story of one of the earliest exploits of that Giacomo di Casanova who has been so aptly called the Prince of Adventurers, and whom some have accounted the very Prince of Scoundrels.
Casanova's Alibi Illustrated by Rafael Sabatini Pdf
Casanova's Alibi and Other Stories by Rafael Sabatini -There can be little doubt--although it is not explicitly so stated inhis memoirs--that it was the sight of the mast of a fruit-boat beforethe window of his prison that first aroused the notion in his fertilebrain.But let us begin at the beginning of this story of one of the earliestexploits of that Giacomo di Casanova who has been so aptly called thePrince of Adventurers, and whom some have accounted the very Prince ofScoundrels.
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Casanova's Alibi and Other Short Stories by Rafael Sabatini Pdf
Rafael Sabatini (1875 - 1950) was an author best known for romance and adventure novels. Some of Sabatini's most famous works include The Sea-Hawk, Scaramouche, and Captain Blood.
Casanova's Alibi: Illustrated Edition by Rafael Rafael Sabatini Pdf
A young woman (Helen McCrory) tearfully leaves her son (Eugene Simon) to live with his grandmother and promises to return for him someday. Several years later, in 1753, in Venice, Casanova (Heath Ledger), is notorious for his promiscuity with women, his adventures being represented in puppet theatres around the city.
Author : S. Guy Endore Publisher : New York : J. Day Company Page : 448 pages File Size : 45,7 Mb Release : 1822 Category : Adventure and adventurers ISBN : UOM:39015009184154
Casanova the Irresistible by Phillippe Sollers Pdf
His is a name synonymous with seduction. His was a life lived without limits. Giacomo Casanova left behind thousands of pages detailing his years among Europe's notable and noble. In Casanova the Irresistible, Philippe Sollers--prolific intellectual and revered visionary of the French avant-garde--proffers a lively reading of and guide to the famed libertine's sprawling memoir. Armine Kotin Mortimer's translation of Sollers's reading tracks the alluring Venetian through the whole of his astounding and disreputable life. Eschewing myth, Sollers dares to present the plain realities of a man "simple, direct, courageous, cultivated, seductive, funny. A philosopher in action." The lovers are here, and the ruses and adventures. But Sollers also rescues Casanova the writer, a gifted composer of words who reigns as a titan of eighteenth-century literature. As always, Sollers seeks to shame society for its failure to recognize its failings. By admiring those of Casanova's admirable qualities present in himself, Sollers spurns bourgeois hypocrisy and cliché to affirm a jocund philosophy of life devoted to the twinned pursuits of pleasure and joy. A masterful translation that captures Sollers's idiosyncratic style, Casanova the Irresistible escorts readers on a journey into the heads and hearts of two singular personalities.