A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch
Leo Damrosch Bücher
Leo Damrosch ist ein renommierter amerikanischer Autor und Professor, dessen Werk tief in die Intellektuellengeschichte und Literaturwissenschaft eintaucht. Sein akademischer Schwerpunkt liegt auf Schlüsselperioden wie der Aufklärung, der Romantik und dem Puritanismus, was seine aufschlussreichen Analysen prägt. Damroschs Bücher bieten neue Perspektiven auf bedeutende historische und literarische Persönlichkeiten und Bewegungen und bereichern unser Verständnis der Entwicklung von Denken und Kunst. Seine Schriften werden für ihre Gelehrsamkeit und ihre Fähigkeit geschätzt, komplexe Ideen einem breiten Publikum zugänglich zu machen.
Jonathan Swift
- 592 Seiten
- 21 Lesestunden
From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language
The life of the iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) has never been told in the depth it deserves. An alluring representative of the Enlightenment’s shadowy underside, Casanova was an aspiring priest, an army officer, a fortune teller, a con man, a magus, a violinist, a mathematician, a Masonic master, an entrepreneur, a diplomat, a gambler, a spy—and the first to tell his own story. In his vivid autobiography Histoire de Ma Vie, he recorded at least a hundred and twenty love affairs, as well as dramatic sagas of duels, swindles, arrests, and escapes. He knew kings and an empress, Catherine the Great, and most of the famous writers of the time, including Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin. Drawing on seldom used materials, including the original French and Italian primary sources, and probing deeply into the psychology, self-conceptions, and self-deceptions of one of the world’s most famous con men and seducers, Leo Damrosch offers a gripping, mature, and devastating account of an Enlightenment man, freed from the bounds of moral convictions.
The Club
- 488 Seiten
- 18 Lesestunden
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of the Club, a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern