Giacomo Casanova

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April 02, 1725 in Venice, Italy

died

June 04, 1798

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Biographies & Memoirs

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Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was a Venetian adventurer and author. His main book Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), part autobiography and part memoir, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century.

He was so famous as a womanizer that his name remains synonymous with the art of seduction and he is sometimes called "the world's greatest lover". He associated with European royalty, popes and cardinals, along with men such as Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart; but if he had not been obliged to spend some years as a librarian in the household of Count Waldstein of Bohemia (where he relieved his boredom by writing the story of his life), it is possible that he wou...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 725 ratings · 111 reviews · 113 distinct works

	The Story of My Life by Giacomo Casanova, Gilberto Pizzamiglio (Editor), Stephen Sartarelli (Translation) 3.77 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 1794 — 39 editions	My rating:
	History of My Life Volumes 1 & 2 by Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. Trask 4.35 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1794 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests 3.23 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	History of My Life, Volumes 3 and 4 by Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. Trask 4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1794 — 3 editions	My rating:
	History of My Life Volumes 5 & 6 by Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. Trask 4.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1794 — 2 editions	My rating:
	History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. Trask 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Casanova: The Venetian Years by Giacomo Casanova, Benedict Cumberbatch 3.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	History of My Life Volumes 7 & 8 by Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. Trask 4.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1794	My rating:
	History of My Life Volumes 11 & 12 by Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. Trask 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1794	My rating:
	History of My Life, Volume 9 and 10 by Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. Trask 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1794 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

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― Giacomo Casanova

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“one who makes no mistakes makes nothing”
― Giacomo Casanova

tags: mistakes , timidity

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“If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.”
― Giacomo Casanova

tags: inspirational , writing

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