The History of My Life: Volumes 3 and 4
Volumes 3 and 4 offer some of the most extraordinary episodes in Casanova's extraordinary life, including his liaison with the nun M. M., and his flight from the State Inquisitor's prison—each in its own way a feat of singular dash and daring.
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"Trask has written a version in an English fully contemporary yet remarkably Italian in sensibility. With admirable restraint and refinement, he has conveyed the zest and sensuous delight of the original." — National Book Award CitationVolumes 3 and 4 offer some of the most extraordinary episodes in Casanova's extraordinary life, including his liaison with the nun M. M., and his flight from the State Inquisitor's prison — each in its own way a feat of singular dash and daring.
\ National Book Award CitationTrask has written a version in an English fully contemporary yet remarkably Italian in sensibility. With admirable restraint and refinement, he has conveyed the zest and sensuous delight of the original.\ \ \ \ \ New York Times Book ReviewThese memoirs are compulsive reading... they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents.\ — J. H. Plumb\ \ \ \ New York Review of BooksTrask expertly rendered this text into English in 1966, and his is the English version to read... Compulsively readable... Certainly, few books better convey the sheer, exuberant joy of being alive and young than these reminiscences.\ — Michael Dirda\ \ \
